A very good thing to test is to "compare" the older versions of Elive with the last ones, to see how much degrades the performance over the years (which is an inevitable thing), while it can also have some other performance improvements, so in the end, a detailed comparison is something good to know ! 
Yes of course! these are very welcome and useful things to improve Elive! 
If it’s a useless task and won’t give any help I will just delete this thread
I think that I just missed this thread
That's pretty old!, remember that you can download all the older versions of Elive from:
