Just because something isn't the bottleneck doesn't mean it's not worth optimising.if you spend 10% decoding, 80% working and 10% saving the results, saving tha

Just because something isn't the bottleneck doesn't mean it's not worth optimising.if you spend 10% decoding, 80% working and 10% saving the results, saving that first or last 10% is definitely worthwhile. My $400 consumer motherboard has a 10Gb network card, and my SSD reads at over 50Gb/s. Anything that brings IO closer to those speeds is welcome.