Well, I've not had any complaints and with 100 and 1000 Mbps networks, bringing 4 MB or 10 MB into memory is not slow. It's mostly just a personal preference.

>>Are you referring to a loader that checks the local copy against the network copy and brings down the network copy if it is newer, then starts the local copy?
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>Yes, a quicker startup one of several potential advantages of doing that. When no updates are available to pull down, you're starting directly from the hard drive, which is faster than starting from the server. Certainly makes a difference on a network with alot of traffic, but I think even so on one that doesn't.