Some statistics:
base + COMBRELOC
$ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
(; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; ) 148.64s
user 4.82s system 99% cpu 2:33.93 total
base + DF caching:
$ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
(; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; ) 151.15s
user 5.53s system 99% cpu 2:37.23 total
base:
$ time (for i in `seq 100`;do noatun --help>/dev/null;done)
(; for i in `seq 100`; do; noatun --help > /dev/null; done; ) 492.36s user
5.34s system 99% cpu 8:19.17 total