2nd Temporary Directory Experiments

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The best I’ve found is this

2nd Temp directory: What does it *do*?

Yeah I’ve been confused about this as well, but the impression I get is that it allows you to overlap / parallelize I/O a bit more and optimize overall plot time? It moves plotting over to the 2nd location after stage 1&2. Can be marginally useful to move from fastest SSD to a slower SSD to free up your fastest SSD for a new plot – but your mileage may vary. It’s worth mentioning that if you do this and your 2nd tmp dir is on the same drive where you want the final plot to be on, then you sho…

But more experiments are very welcome!