Right, you package up your dependencies. That doesn't mean you don't have any! Anyway, what I'm getting at is, the platform has to load a bunch of code, somet

Right, you package up your dependencies. That doesn't mean you don't have any! Anyway, what I'm getting at is, the platform has to load a bunch of code, sometimes that will take longer than the latency that you can hide behind an ssl handshake; plus the code might run something on init. But yes, workers seem to be oriented towards relatively small bits of code, so maybe the vast majority of load times are a few ms.