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> 1. FUSE filesystems. This means sending really slow queries to S3, and so you're much better off using compression to get better performance.

As author of https://github.com/kahing/goofys/ I respectfully disagree :-)

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I don't mean the filesystem implementation is inherently slow, necessarily: I'm talking about bandwidth. If you get 3× compression, read times from S3 will be 3× as fast—but that means no mmap().

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