Isn fetching stuff over the web really slow?
You have to get stuff over the web anyway the first time. The system caches everything, and will never even check that the cache is up-to-date if it can satisfy a request without updating. There is no speed hit to using stuff once it’s downloaded. The fact that everything is referenced by fixed URIs instead of having to search means that this system can actually be faster in some cases. Consider loading a shared library. At the moment, a program must, on startup: • Load /etc/ld.so.cache and find the full path of each library from that. • Load the actual library by its path. With Zero-installation, this becomes: • Load the actual library by its path. It also removes the need to run ldconfig at install time (handy, since there is no ‘install time’ ;-), losing a major source of errors and user confusion.
