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Re:Making Highrise faster with memcached by soundsop on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:36PM (#422336)
People are not going to feel the difference between a page rendered in 50ms and one rendered in 100ms.

I don't think that every 50ms difference is unimportant, but the difference between a 50ms render time and 100ms render time may be unimportant. Anyone have a feel for what the maximum render time is for a page to feel fast?

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Re:Making Highrise faster with memcached by river_styx on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:53PM (#422374)
One thing they're missing here is that optimization is also about optimizing resources, not just the speed of an individual request/response cycle. If each request takes 50% less time, the app has 100% more resources to handle other requests. So even though the individual users don't feel a difference, the app as a whole is much more efficient.
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