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		zestyping on Oct 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternat... Interesting. Why does multithreading make a big difference? I would have assumed that disk seek latency was the speed-limiting factor; what am I missing?

tyingq on Oct 8, 2017 [–]

I believe the comparative benchmarks are done with the os file caches already primed.

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