On: Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2

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If anybody is interested, Google Compute Engine VM's result.

    blog   ~ touch test.c
    blog   ~ nano test.c
    blog   ~ gcc -o test test.c
    blog   ~ strace -ce gettimeofday ./test
    % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
    ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
      0.00    0.000000           0       100           gettimeofday
    ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
    100.00    0.000000