> 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

The perfect use case for <http://flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/>.

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