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On 02-Apr-2003 Terry Lambert wrote:
> The only way I see for disk I/O to be involved in Mozilla is in
> local cache?  You can turn that off.

Umm, the idea here is to actually make threaded programs
_useful_.  Not to require that you trim their functionality
down before we handle them in a sane way.  Less FUD more signal
please.

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