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ubuntu@c1-10-1-2-29:~$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test1 bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 5.43834 s, 98.7 MB/s
ubuntu@c1-10-1-2-29:~$ dd if=test1 of=test2 bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 5.869 s, 91.5 MB/s
ubuntu@c1-10-1-2-29:~$ dd if=test2 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 0.60429 s, 888 MB/sSome years ago I implementend something similiar in javascript: http://pmav.eu/stuff/javascript-game-of-life-v3.1.1/
The benchmark can be really slow in some steps.