From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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>> No app really makes copying any faster/slower
>>than disk access allows, so it's pointless to make it any more complex a
>>case than need be.
>
>    In the case of going from Drive->drive, there may be some benefit to
> overlapping the read / write operations on different threads to keep both
> drives operating at full throughput.

Not really. A single thread would still mostly only wait for the disks.
Check out the CPU/Memory usage during file copy operations - almost no
activity there. Just about the only thing that makes Windows Explorer the
slowest method is that it is not a high-priority operation, so anything
that is going on in the system at the same time can take up it's time.
That, and the animations, of course .


Antti Kurenniemi

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