Sorry about that Duncan I'll post the free link moving forward:

https://blog.devgenius.io/zero-copy-go-why-io-copy-is-lying-to-you-sendfile-splice-11748e293462?sk=fae4701df623c1993462e1bfdc3ff794

On Thu, Jul 23, 2026 at 10:56 AM Duncan Harris <[email protected]> wrote:

> Posting pay to view article links seems to me to be not appropriate for
> this group.
> I don't know if you intended this or not, but posting it as free to read
> URL would be better.
>
> Duncan
>
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2026 at 07:01:22 UTC+1 Cheikh Seck wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote up something on a performance footgun most of us walk right past.
> io.Copy looks innocent, but it is doing a lot more copying than you would
> think.
>
>
> https://medium.com/dev-genius/zero-copy-go-why-io-copy-is-lying-to-you-sendfile-splice-11748e293462
>
>
> In it I cover:
>
> - Why io.Copy does extra kernel to user to kernel round-trips
> - How sendfile and splice actually move bytes without touching user space
> - Benchmarks showing the real-world gap on large transfers
> - Where zero-copy helps and where it does not
>
> Curious what patterns you all reach for when squeezing throughput out of
> network and file I/O.
>
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