As much as I love sqlite, if I understand correctly, this is telling that sqlite doing fread on an already opened file is 35% faster than not-sqlite doing fopen

As much as I love sqlite, if I understand correctly, this is telling that sqlite doing fread on an already opened file is 35% faster than not-sqlite doing fopen+fread on a single file. Is this just a blatantly dishonest comparison, or did I miss something?