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Another Benchmark

Several days ago, Keith-Winstein replied at the Quora Posts mentioned that my previous benchmark cannot be reproduced due to the time of all deletion operations lasting too long. To make it clear, those weird data might be that my computer was under heavy load in the past years that it may exist some fs errors during the previous benchmarks. Yet, I am not sure about it. Anyway, I got myself a relatively new rackable computer and did the benchmark again. This time I used /usr/bin/time that offers more detail results. Here is the new result,
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