What Xe Iaso thinks about software performance

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1. 15 Sept 2026

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

   Their wordsFilesystem 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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