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		gilgoomesh on Nov 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on us... The files you're reading are already cached by the OS (to perform the exact same work). The only processing involved is computing a hashes and a small RSA encryption. Less than half a millisecond?

DHowett on Nov 14, 2012 [–]

You could also use access(), which will not incur any file reading overhead or exchange of encryption keys.

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