How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

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affine July 1, 2025, 7:34am 1

How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

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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