I am looking for some observations on which will give me more speed. I have already written a basic copy program in Python 2.6 that is no slower than RICHCOPY. Thus I may be missing some fundamental concept of what happens with interpreted languages.Īny observations or experiences would be appreciated.

I am assuming that I would but I only started really learning to program 18 months and it is still more or less a hobby. I am toying around with the idea of doing this in Assembly because it seems interesting, but while my time is not incredibly precious it is precious enough that I am trying to get a sense of whether or not I will see significant enough gains in copy speed. My other thought is to start learning how to multi-thread in Python to do the copies. I am toying around with using what I have read in The Art of Assembly Language to write a program to copy my files. RICHCOPY seems the fastest but I do not believe I am getting close to the limits of the capabilities of my XP machine. I am currently using RICHCOPY, but have tried others. As a maintenance issue I need to routinely (3-5 times per year) copy a repository that is now has over 20 million files and exceeds 1.5 terabytes in total disk space.

Super fast copier