> I believe this is related to an oddity of the clojure compiler: it > syncs every time it writes a class file to disk. This appears to be > necessary for reasons that escape me. (One might naively assume that a > simple flush() would be enough; but that was not so when I stumbled > across this myself a year or so ago.) > > In any event, it does not surprise me in the least that a storm of > sync calls would cause a mechanical hard disk to grovel a bit, while > presenting
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