...For sequential access to random data it's ~3 times slower than ipfs cat but also ~20 times faster than cating files mounted by go-ipfs. It's supposed that FS mounted by go-ipfs daemon is slow because of file structure being accessed in every read. By adding caching one can improve performance a lot. Apart from mounting one specified CID you can also mount whole IPFS namespace. This is similar to ipfs mount provided in go-ipfs. ipfs-api-mount uses node API for listing directories and reading objects. Objects are decoded and file structure is created localy (not in IPFS node). ...