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A network round trip is roughly a million times slower than a filesystem-cache read.

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software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

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  1. Xe Iaso Technical educator, conference speaker and developer…
    Filesystem reads in that case are 10 nanoseconds at most (the filesystem cache helps so much here) but doing any network roundtrip is 10 milliseconds at minimum. It's at least a million times slower because of how reality works.

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