Benchmark: timing 3000000 iterations of changestat, openfile... changestat: 4 wallclock secs ( 3.88 usr + -0.02 sys = 3.86 CPU) @ 778008.30/s (n=3000000) openfile: 0 wallclock secs ( 1.01 usr + -0.02 sys = 0.99 CPU) @ 3024193.55/s (n=3000000)