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		acdha on March 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Don't Want to Learn Go It's measuring the overhead of a set of open()/read()/close() syscalls - exactly the situation where you would want to use the cache to avoid physical disk latencies swamping the language variation.

adgar on March 20, 2012 [–]

Then it should say so, not suggest any rereading is being done and that it's just kernel plus memcpy.

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