It's not my intention to second guess Ken, but at least in terms of performance I'd say that the current user home directory structure would bet a hit in the bu

It's not my intention to second guess Ken, but at least in terms of performance I'd say that the current user home directory structure would bet a hit in the buffer cache since Unix got filesystem buffer caches. In terms of wasted CPU cycles, it's another story but hey these are the days of using npm packages to basically do a string comparison.