As discussed in bug 611732 there are a number of seeks involved with opening a simple disk_cache entry. Lets try to avoid some of them by reading stream 0 and the footer in a single operation. The amount to read can either be speculative or stashed in the index to get the exact amount.
I have some work-in-progress that shows some promise with APP_CACHE mode.
Comment 1 by wanderview@chromium.org
, Dec 7