[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#706034: Bug#706034: very slow copying using mc versus cp

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:06:26 Ubuntu6226 wrote:
> cp() in C is normally very fast.
> 
> I have to look to the code of mc for copying, why it does 300 kb instead of regular bash with cp (900 kb)
> 
> Well, you really need to improve that into cp
> 

I think it might be already implemented in subshell-less mode.
Try to run MC without subshell: `mc -u`.
Do you feel the difference?

Cheers,
 Dmitry Smirnov
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