I think latency of a network will always lag behind that of local storage. Even traveling at the speed of light, going around the circumference of the earth ta

I think latency of a network will always lag behind that of local storage. Even traveling at the speed of light, going around the circumference of the earth takes over 100ms. Obviously not all network requests go around the globe, but the fact that local storage is physically closer to your computer will always be a sizeable advantage.