Really? You don't think that doing lazy class loads would speed up your startup?
Did you try? Did you benchmark Dotted Imports vs full import, or "less dotted"? I knocked 1s of the startup just by * importing objectify, that you took all of but did so in 6 places. No, you never try anything. I think I made it clear that threading wouldn't change the startup, it would speed up the app. And since your issue was startup plus response time and it appears that can take 6-8 seconds and tests at 2-5 after threading that would appear that would make your QoS much better, and based on the load you were describing that would seemingly reduce your number of starts, and need for more instances. You aren't doing hash caching. That's a huge, easy speed up. Even if you don't "downgrade" to sha1, that will make a huge difference in your need to spin up more instances. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.