title: Can I get a faster output pipe than /dev/null?
body: <p>I am running a huge task [automated translation scripted with perl + database etc.] to run for about 2 weeks non-stop. While thinking how to speed it up I saw that the translator outputs everything (all translated sentences, all info on the way) to STDOUT all the time. This makes it work visibly slower when I get the output on the console. </p>
  
  <p>I obviously piped the output to <code>/dev/null</code>, but then I thought "could there be something even faster?" It's so much output that it'd really make a difference.</p>
  
  <p>And that's the question I'm asking You, because as far as I know there is nothing faster... (But I'm far from being a guru having used linux on a daily basis only last 3 years)</p>