Linux Pipes are Slow | Quentin Santosvmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster through a pipe. Francesco already did a deep dive on using vmsplice to make things fast. However, while experimenting with it, I noticed that, when not using vmsplice, Linux pipes are slower than what I would have expected. Since you cannot always use it, I wanted to understand exactly why that was, and
