It’s actually not really about speed in my particular case; I mostly just don’t want lots of tiny intermediate files being written and rewritten on my SSD all t

It’s actually not really about speed in my particular case; I mostly just don’t want lots of tiny intermediate files being written and rewritten on my SSD all the time. I would sleep better if I knew that they wouldn’t have any negative effects on the lifetime of my drive. I have a tmpfs folder mounted for my downloads folder for my browser for similar reasons; not for speed but to reduce drive wear and automatic cleanup so that it doesn’t pile up for forever.