
A normal `read()` copies bytes from the kernel into your program. A normal file send copies them again from your program to a socket. For a high-throughput service, those copies can dominate CPU. mmap, sendfile, and io_uring let you skip them -- but the trade-offs are real and the failure modes are subtle.
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