I can say that's true from empirical experience - doubly so if you're targeting an environment where the data's likely to be stored on a NAS or some other fairl

I can say that's true from empirical experience - doubly so if you're targeting an environment where the data's likely to be stored on a NAS or some other fairly slow storage. (And yeah, natch, insert recitation of the Liturgy of the Optimizer as a charm against the appearance of a certain Knuth quote.)