Re: [tlug] rsync efficiency (was: The Mother of All (bash) Commands)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Josh Glover writes:
 > On 01/04/2008, Attila Kinali <attila@example.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Yes, but would you call a sorting algorithm fast, if it would
 > >  perform good on random sorted data (O(n*log(n)), but take o(exp(n))
 > >  if the data is reverse ordered? Yes, it might be a pathological
 > >  case, but if this pathological case is actually quite common,
 > >  then the algorithm as a big flaw.
 > 
 > The point

here should be a period, and quickly!