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Aha! As far as persisting calculations, this makes sense. I guess in my head I was thinking "pure" data where everything opened was precomputed. Forgive my ignorance about database solutions, but do they not implement something similar?

But now you've got me thinking, it would be nice if libraries like Dask could allow for flagging of symbolic operations like this to be written to disk for quickly saving metadata where intermediate steps don't explicitly need to be saved.