And yet the data is ephemeral, so in many cases could be done faster without the "real" block storage guarantees.
Github Actions is pay-per-minute-used, unfortunately, so they may have a negative incentive to speed things up. Unless people become frustrated enough to switch to a non-bundled provider.
Not all the data is ephemeral - stuff like node_modules needs to he cached and if you’re suggesting to use tmpfs then it’s like 50x more cost than fully tricked out cloud ssd which is already ridiculously expensive
Github Actions is pay-per-minute-used, unfortunately, so they may have a negative incentive to speed things up. Unless people become frustrated enough to switch to a non-bundled provider.