[Swift-devel] Avoid copy of local files to work directory?

[Michael Wilde]

On 4/19/09 10:10 AM, Ben Clifford wrote:
> I once implemented a patch to give that behaviour, and sent to this list. 

Its here:

http://mail.ci.uchicago.edu/pipermail/swift-devel/2008-April/002931.html

> I think it probably either still works or almost still works, if you can 
> find it in the swift-devel archives.
> 
> It was never benchmarked. Mostly I would be concerned about the overhead 
> of creating the links being roughly the same as actually copying the data, 
> so I think it would be important to get decent run logs from both 
> approaches that can be compared.

> Whilst you are busy googling for that patch, it might be interesting to 
> see a log file (including -info wrapper logs) for a large run with Swift 
> as it is now, to see what the actual breakdown of times is in an 
> individual job.
>