How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

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How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

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[email protected]English • 2 months ago

Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix --- but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we'll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.

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Awesome article!

Does anyone know how/where in Linux (I assume proc, somewhere) I can find the L# cache sizes?
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  lscpu -C

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