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Andrew J Caines wrote:

> Kris Kennaway said...
> 
>>The null program has been ported to every OS and architecture that has
>>or will ever be produced.
> 
> FreeBSD's null implementation has been shown in several independent
> benchmark tests to run faster than all other tested platforms and fully
> supports the null specification.
> 
> [...]

See also the FreeBSD FAQ: 17.4. Where does data written to /dev/null go?
  <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/funnies.html#DEV-NULL>