I wonder if the scores for Q2 were skewed upwards due to a recent Stack Overflow question which illustrated the principle of sequential disk reads in a similar

I wonder if the scores for Q2 were skewed upwards due to a recent Stack Overflow question which illustrated the principle of sequential disk reads in a similar scenario. (SO is down right now, so I can neither find it nor tell when/whether it was poster here on HN or over on /r/programming.)