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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Again, not really an objection, but I don't think this replaces the
> "you're better off running the test suite on a RAM disk" wisdom.

Nice summary.  This was sold as "not everybody has ready access to
tmpfs", so those of us who can use either should stick to our tmpfs
as we have done so far.