> I'm gonna have to implement my own buffer pool and manage my reads directly like that vexatious paper[1] said all along.

You make it sound like I was trying to troll everyone when we wrote that paper. We were warning you.

It's annoying because it's right and also describes the exact type of paradoxical performance reversal I'm seeing. (It's also great because it describes the exact type of paradoxical performance reversal I'm seeing, likely saves me a lot lot of head scratching ;-)