I used to benchmark a lot on an enterprise-grade SSD 10 years ago, and that was already at 2 GB/s. Today, even my laptop's SSD supports multiple GB/s.
But you're right about the contest -- each program was measured five times in a row, and there was enough RAM to fit the entire file into the page cache.
The best time using all 32 cores (64 hyperthreads) on the evaluation machine was 323 milliseconds.
But you're right about the contest -- each program was measured five times in a row, and there was enough RAM to fit the entire file into the page cache.
The best time using all 32 cores (64 hyperthreads) on the evaluation machine was 323 milliseconds.