Take the tour ×  How can I find out, or does anybody know, if is
faster storing/reading a file with Spanish/Greek/Cyrilic/etc...
characters like mi-foto-españa-oíóáaç.jpg than mi-foto-espana-
oioaac.jpg ?  share|improve this question Make a script that
does it a million times and time it ? :) –  Antoine Benkemoun
Mar 17 at 12:52 Good point, I'll give a try later –  w0rldart
Mar 17 at 12:57 Sure, benchmark it. But I would be very
surprised if the name of the file made any difference at all.
Why do you suspect it might? –  Celada Mar 17 at 13:01 @Celada I
was just curious... latter I will benchmark the same thing but
for apache, see if any difference there. –  w0rldart Mar 17 at
13:03 add comment  1 Answer  I doubt very much that the name of
the file will affect the read/write speed of the system to a
file. The reason being that once the file is open all actions on
it take place through the file descriptor (fd) and the name is
not used.  share|improve this answer Furthermore, the filename
is just a byte string o