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by __jal 3401 days ago
That's just not possible to authoritatively state. The best you can do is "this shouldn't normally cause a noticeable impact on most systems".

As just one example, what you're stat()ing over NFS with a busy, flaky and/or distant server? A bit of thought and you'll come up with a bunch of other times it suddenly starts to matter.