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Temp files are great - you can inspect your output. And, while they might suck on Windows, on Unix, they are pretty much an in-memory data structure anyway.

• gizmo686 12y ago
  On Ubuntu (14.04), /tmp is part of the root filesystem. /run seems to be the main ramdisk.
  • Roboprog 12y ago
    What I meant is that a "temp" file may very well never hit the actual disk, rather than memory buffers, until after the time that app 1 writes it and app 2 reads it.