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> And not when you want to have lots running in parallel, accessing and potentially making "changes" to the same files.

Reading a file is a fast operation these days. Re-reading a file shortly after a read is less than a memory copy.

Making the structure more complicated so that you can avoid reading a file during unit tests is a poor investment of resources - that complexity will haunt down the team forever.




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