> Buffering to memory can only work if the input is "small", whatever that means.
Well, increasingly it means "up to 8GB or more". Or put another way, RAM is increasing faster than network speed (or the speed of light for that matter...). So, I'd say that, yes, for many things you'd want to download from the internet, caching in RAM is absolutely an option?
Well, increasingly it means "up to 8GB or more". Or put another way, RAM is increasing faster than network speed (or the speed of light for that matter...). So, I'd say that, yes, for many things you'd want to download from the internet, caching in RAM is absolutely an option?