> > I noticed that if I'm doing a lot of clicking around there is pretty > > much no time spent with either of those, but if I work on something > > and then come back to the browser after a bit, Firefox can really > > spend some time there. > > Could be anything. Maybe Firefox is caching stuff , maybe it isn't. Maybe > your machine swaps a lot and it take awhile to swap back in. Sounds like > you are worry needlessly about a few seconds difference.
"A few seconds" can easily be the difference between a customer spending enough time on my site to find something they want to buy, and not. When I click on a search results link, I'll hit stop and try another link if the page takes a few seconds too long to load. It just seems silly to work on speeding up my server's execution time, and even make sacrifices for greater speed, until I can get a page to serve in 1 second instead of 4, and then realize I'm sometimes waiting as long as 10 seconds before my code is even executed. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
