> With ftp://smarty.smart.net/pub/rlhamil/goodies/preload.c you can load and optionally lock into memory files listed on the command line; with the proper choice of files, browser startup could be speeded up by a couple of seconds.
That sort of feature should be automatic in the OS at best, and at worst enabled in a GUI so users can choose what apps to have preloaded (testing would be done to determine the best files to preload, and then you would choose "Firefox" in the GUI to have the appropriate files loaded). DDR2 RAM is dirt cheap and very common. System memory availability is increasing faster than application size. Constant caching (rather than caching after one run and then starting over after powerup) is just another layer or type of caching that would be beneficial to add to the mix, at least for "powerusers" to use. This message posted from opensolaris.org
