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What would be the "high experience level" alternative?

Read and write, most of the time.

It's funny how code written by masters tends to look a lot like code written by novices, while intermediate-level code is full of baroque architecture and clever tricks that don't work. The difference between master code and novice code is that a master knows when he can get away with simplicity.

When you've written a world's fastest anything then you'll be in position to judge. But not before then.

How do you know I haven't? Besides, I said "most of the time". There are obviously important applications for mmap.

A fastest for loop that does nothing qualifies?

What about fastest product that run 1M TPS but crashes and is down 10 days per month? Is that still fastest?

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