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In practice the majority of web app performance have more to do with latency of IO. People seem to forget that 4ms may seem fast to humans, but it's glacial to
by base698 10y ago
In practice the majority of web app performance have more to do with latency of IO. People seem to forget that 4ms may seem fast to humans, but it's glacial to computers. Add 100 4ms calls to the DB and all the sudden your code is waiting for half a second if it does nothing else.
- AstralStorm 10y agoBonus points that in a real real-time system (anything with a GUI) you might have only a 1 ms or less to handle an event in a bigger stream, e.g. dragging. This is why so much UI is or should be really asynchronous.