I basically agree. There have been several recent discussions of this topic on both -hackers and -performance; it is likely that the TODO needs to be updated with some more recent links.
Anything to help the NKOTB to get up to speed would be appreciated, though I still think it is not just a 'caching' issue.
The question I hesitated to ask in Ottawa was: So, what information would you like and what would you do with it? -- Mike Nolan