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Benchmark performance of logging to an in-memory buffer, file, and null device.

Ignores initialization operations such as creating a new logger and opening the
file.

BenchmarkFile() ensures the file is empty before timing the benchmark and
clears the file afterwards.

Results:

	$ go test -bench=.
	goos: linux
	goarch: amd64
	pkg: github.com/esote/log-benchmark
	BenchmarkBuffer-6   	 2000000	       970 ns/op
	BenchmarkFile-6     	 1000000	      2157 ns/op
	BenchmarkNull-6     	 1000000	      1403 ns/op
	PASS
	ok  	github.com/esote/log-benchmark	6.553s