soft link vs. direct efficiency

[Steven Stern]

I've added a second disk to my system (/dev/sdb1) and moved a directory
from my home folder there.  I then created a soft link to the new directory:

   ln -s /mnt/sdb1/mystuff/folderA folderA

When I'm copying files to it, is there any loss of efficiency (in a
measurable sense) between

    rsync /path/to/folderB ~/folderA  and
    rsync /path/to/folderB /mnt/sdb1/mystuff/folderA


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-- Steve