C Runtime Overhead (2015)
> I happened to run strace -tt against my solution (which provides microsecond-accurate timing information for syscalls)<p>Weirdly I always found the timing results of strace at under one millisecond generally unreliable, it just seemed to add too much overhead itself.<p>Also making system calls from your own code varies between prohibited and badly supported on most OSes. Some see calls that didn't pass through the system libc as a security issue and will intercept them, while Linux may just silently corrupt your process memory if you try something fancy as the Go team had to find out.