Huh. Like to see some numbers on that. Not arguing, just a little surprised. So you have data that shows bcopy() to be faster than the copy-on-write stuff?

Huh. Like to see some numbers on that. Not arguing, just a little surprised. So you have data that shows bcopy() to be faster than the copy-on-write stuff? As for the buffers, known problem, all the apps that used this sort of thing cycled through N buffers for exactly that reason. I think N=4 was way more than enough.