> True, I did take that into account. I could be mistaken but I think the main > problem lies with the proxy software. I think that Polipo and, especially, > Privoxy are pretty resource intensive, and affect performance more than Tor > itself.
Polipo has been shown to be faster than most browsers' implementation of
HTTP.
As for resources consumed, people are running Polipo on embedded routers
with 16 MB of memory.
Juliusz
