second call for feedback on Naiad design

[Craig Latta]

Hi Matthew--

 > I have a suspicion that this rewrite has sped up the source code
 > access speed dramatically, which should make the browser much
 > snappier and Monticollo snapshotting much faster. Could you
 > comment on a rough estimate of this speedup? I think it is a
 > feature worth advertising.

      Good point... I haven't done any measurements yet, though. This is 
effectively comparing localhost network access from RAM to filesystem 
access. I imagine it would come down to which way invoked more paging on 
the part of the host system's memory management. My guess is that the 
network case would be faster, but not amazingly so these days.

      You experience unduly slow speeds with the file-based case now?


      thanks again,

-C