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three14 on Nov 21, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows 8 to have built-in anti-virus - there's go...

It could be, but virus scanners don't use FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING? It seems relatively easy for them, and if some did and some didn't you'd get reviews like "slower than the competition".

vilya on Nov 22, 2011 [–]

I don't claim to have any special knowledge here so yeah, could be. I didn't know about that flag BTW - thanks for mentioning it. It sounds similar to O_DIRECT on linux?

three14 on Nov 22, 2011 | [–]

Looks like the same idea, but I'm no expert in this.

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