Posted by Chung Leong on 08/08/06 22:06

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> Even 100 page requests in 10 seconds would be over 860K requests/day,
> which would make your site one of the busiest on the internet. And if
> that's the case you'll have a lot more things to worry about -
> bandwidth, for instance.
>
> Even at 100 page requests/min. you'll be one of the busiest on the
> internet - but the 8ms won't be noticeable.
>
> I understand your desire to optimize the code. But some things just
> aren't worth the effort.

Right. Nearly all web applications are bound by throughput. Even at
maximum server load CPU utilization won't be near 100%. It's pointless
save a ms here and there when it just end up being idle time.

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