RAM Disk on macOS for Xcode DerivedData

Xcode spits out an unfathomable number of object files, and on a Mac with the SSD soldered to the board, that wear adds up. My fix for over ten years: a RAM disk for DerivedData. I finally benchmarked it too, and was surprised to find HFS+ beating APFS on small-file operations.

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