This was recently discussed on the django mailing list as well and resulted in them putting a quick mention about it in the docs: https://groups.google.com/d/m

This was recently discussed on the django mailing list as well and resulted in them putting a quick mention about it in the docs: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/IkRgMxTTzPQ/YQnEvvEMEhQJ https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/IkRgMxTTzP... I think the performance gained varies quite a bit. I gave it a quick try and saw very minimal gains locally... still need to look into it some more.