Seriously? .28s is 280 milliseconds, for a result with zero content. That is already at the outside acceptable threshold for being perceived as slow response,

Seriously? .28s is 280 milliseconds, for a result with zero content. That is already at the outside acceptable threshold for being perceived as slow response, and that's before we spend any time at all rendering the page. Certainly a VM of some kind could boot faster, but milliseconds count.