Nutmeg provides a cache for Oregano which can dramatically improve performance of the browser when re-visiting sites or visiting separate pages of a site which share common files such as images. Check out some of these performance figures:
Site | Without Nutmeg | With Nutmeg (from cache) |
Yahoo | 14 seconds | 4.3 seconds |
Lycos | 15 seconds | 6.7 seconds |
IMBD | 38 seconds | 11.4 seconds |
Acorn User | 29 seconds | 6.2 seconds |
Cyber Village | 12 seconds | 3.8 seconds |
BBC News | 30 seconds | 10.9 seconds |
Slashdot | 27 seconds | 9.0 seconds |
Speed tests performed on a 200MHZ StrongARM RISC PC, RISC OS Select, 56K modem. 'Without Nutmeg' speeds dependent on network loading (ie. time of day, load on server, etc). 'With Nutmeg' speeds dependent on specification of machine, cache size and settings. In addition, Nutmeg allows you to export sites, site areas and individual files making up a site, from the cache to disc.Nutmeg costs £20 fully inclusive.
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And I'll just slip in the news that Peter "Chocky" Naulls has released full details of his porting initiative, with details of where to send the cheques to! As soon as he has a few punters signed up he'll be releasing a few tasty morsels for everyone to download. So long as SSH is one of them Chox (in case you forgot ;)
www.chocky.org/unix