Homebrew

[Joshua Root]

On 2010-5-19 00:14 , Jack Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 07:48:39AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>> On May 18, 2010, at 07:45, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>
>>>> Where do symlinks shine when compared to hardlinks?
>>>
>>> They don't.
> 
> I can't find the link at the moment but I am pretty sure that
> hardlinks have a significant performance penalty under HFS
> compared to symlinks. I recall it being something like 10-fold
> slower because the hardlinks are kept in a flat file system
> and HFS would require an rewrite to solve this.

That stopped being true in ~10.3 IIRC.

- Josh