Anyone who made any HackerRank problems considering performance has seen this phrase in the assignment: “watch out for slow IO”. We are used to thing about files, databases and such as potentially slow IO, but the Console? Yes, and you will be amazed how much. Couple words about the setup. I am using NLog with file target (for normal logging) and mail target (for total failure, and aggregated reports). When debugging or profiling I run the process as a con...