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Author giampaolo.rodola
Recipients SilentGhost, StyXman, asvetlov, desbma, facundobatista, giampaolo.rodola, gps, josh.r, martin.panter, ncoghlan, neologix, petr.viktorin, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, scoder, socketpair, tarek, vstinner, yselivanov
Date 2018-05-29.08:43:22
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Yes, I tried changing benchmarks order and zero-copy variants are always faster. As for instantaneous CoW copy, it is debatable. E.g. "cp" command does not do it by default:   
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/80351/why-is-cp-reflink-auto-not-the-default-behaviour
I think shutil should follow the same lead, and perhaps provide a cow=bool argument in the future.
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2018-05-29 08:43:22giampaolo.rodolasetrecipients: + giampaolo.rodola, facundobatista, ncoghlan, pitrou, scoder, vstinner, gps, StyXman, tarek, r.david.murray, petr.viktorin, asvetlov, SilentGhost, neologix, socketpair, python-dev, martin.panter, desbma, yselivanov, josh.r
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