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Originally Posted by PeteAU
That's a fair jump, optimized ram timings? What if you soft-kicked another kickstart, would you gain a little with all the libs in 32-bit fastram?
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Short explanation - partly.
Long explanation - some libraries live in kickstart. Some don't. In theory you can pick and choose which you want preloaded into fast RAM. LoadResource command lets you preload individuall libs, devs, fonts and catalogs to RAM, from disk. Relokick or similar utility lets you sideways map a different ROM. I think LoadResource was introduced in OS2, not sure about about that.
Actually getting a startup-sequence right for a given set of applications is quite a struggle, but you can do that or more with most any kind of fast RAM, not just accelerator cards with fast RAM like this project. It's very handy to have ROM shadow on a jumper, saves you (the user) writing the code, true. But maybe not necessary to get to work.