Could we somehow share these resources across domains reducing the need to download, which causes us to slow things down normally.
Here is my thought.
When parsing a .html file you come across a script tag with a src a la
script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.2.6/angular.min.js"
When it downloads the file it (maybe?) puts it in memory so it can be used (I could be wrong here).
What I was thinking is that we maybe generate a key value store, and it does something like this:
{"https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular.js/1.2.6/angular.min.js", "pointer to memory that this resides"}
Now instead of simply downloading a .js file, it looks at the lookup (or hash table) and finds that that EXACT path file exists in memory and just uses that instead of downloading the file again.
Caveats.
1. I don't know if it would be possible to modify that memory.
2. I wouldn't expect this caching to be indefinite, but should be do-able across pages during an active session.
As long as the downloaded data isn't capable of being modified in memory, then doing a string lookup in a local hash *should* give us a decent startup decrease because we don't need to re-download the file(s) and I can't see how we would have any problems with safety/security since you're literally using the exact same file as you downloaded earlier, you just don't need to re-download.
I'm sure I'm missing something here, but I would think that this should be possible. Got any ideas? hit me up on twitter (@onaclov2000) or leave a comment here
