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@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ Despite unix(7) offering much more features than pipe(7), it is much faster. There is however two features unix(7) does not have: there is no guarantee that small writes are atomic, there is not support for splice(2)/tee(2) which -is extremely efficient, and file descriptor hijacking is -not support. The latter is a double-sided sword: it [the -lack of support] increases security, but other processes' -file cannot be opened and programs must treat /dev/fd/ -paths especially. +is extremely efficient, vmsplice(2) and changing the +capacity (neither of which improves the performance +sufficiently), and file descriptor hijacking is not support. +The latter is a double-sided sword: it [the lack of support] +increases security, but other processes' file cannot be +opened and programs must treat /dev/fd/ paths especially. ![performance graph](graph.png) |