In the current version of FASTER C++, on Linux, we use libaio for async IO handling. It is a known issue that libaio is not very efficient. Recently, io_uring is released with Linux kernel 5.1, which advertises to be a high performance aysnc IO library. It would be useful to try it and see if we can improve disk performance on Linux by replacing libaio with it.

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Java configuration functions are mutable.

For example the following setClearAppliedFunctionsOnBoot function is mutable. This function and others should be immutable.

Map<String, Double, PureFunction<String, Double, Apply.Map<Double>>> products =
  PersistentMap
    .functionsOn(Paths.get("my_dir"), stringSerializer(), doubleSerializer(), Arrays.asList(discount))
    .setClear

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