Right.

If I say (stat)[9] I am building a list containing what stat returns and reference the element with index 9 in that list. If I use -M I don't create and operate on a list (although there's an underlying structure, of course).

Getting the right element from the underlying structure directly is faster than pulling them all out and throwing away all elements but one (even though -M involves time delta calculation).

--shmem

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