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by tzury 656 days ago
pv

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pv

it is in the pipe command `... | pv > /dev/null`

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`pv --discard` is faster by 8% (on my system).

  % pv </dev/zero >/dev/null
  54.0GiB/s

  % pv </dev/zero --discard
  58.7GiB/s
Which is suspiciously close to the speed of DDR4.