n := len(b) * count

	if len(b) == 0 {
		return []byte{}
	}

	// Past a certain chunk size it is counterproductive to use
	// larger chunks as the source of the write, as when the source
	// is too large we are basically just thrashing the CPU D-cache.
	// So if the result length is larger than an empirically-found
	// limit (8KB), we stop growing the source string once the limit