Don Marti

Sun 17 Apr 2005 08:33:52 PM PDT

sync57.c

If the point of crafting a tweaked-out version of sync(1) is so that you can run it 57 times really fast, why not just

int main () {
     int i;
     for (i=57;i;i--) sync();
     return 0;
}

Overhead: 0.21 extra system calls per actual sync.