Armory requires full block chain, can it use bootstrap.dat like Bitcoin Core?

[Jace]

I briefly spoke with Matt of Armory last week at Arnhem Bitcoinstad (very cool of you to come by the way!) and he explained Armory is a 'full client', i.e. requiring the entire block chain. Does Armory also use bootstrap.dat (the first 95% of all blocks in one file, downloadable through bittorrent) just like Bitcoin Core, in order to speed up the initial downloading of the blockchain?

[picobit]

Armory depends on Bitcoin Core having the full blockchain.  On some platforms Armory can even "seed" Bitcoin Core with a newer version of bootstrap.dat than the one usually used by Bitcoin Core, helping significantly on Bitcoin Core's startup time.  But since Armory also has its own database, you unfortunately end up with two copies of most of the data, and once Bitcoin Core is up to date Armory needs to build this second database, which also takes some time (but is faster than Bitcoin Core's startup).  Running Armory requires significant disk space.