I was reading about speeding up database systems using hardware RAM accelerators (work) and that lead me to think about Carrara rendering of animations (hobby)...

Q1: Does Carrara get any faster if I have more ram or is the max ram used dependant on the size of the output render?

Q2: Has anyone used a RamDisk (software) for the Carrara swap drive and did it improve things?

e.g. http://www.amtsoftware.com/Ramdisk-Plus/

Q3: Has anyone used a RamDisk (hardware) for the Carrara swap drive and did it improve things?

e.g http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/83684/gigabyte-iram.html