> In the former case, the performance really doesn't matter. If you've got a personal blog, does it matter if your update takes 10 seconds or 1 second? It shou

> In the former case, the performance really doesn't matter. If you've got a personal blog, does it matter if your update takes 10 seconds or 1 second? It shouldn't matter, but the fact that you framed the question as 1 second in the fast case shows that this does matter haha. The fast case in this scenario should be under 10ms, and the slow case should be half a second. It shouldn't take anywhere near 1 second to generate a static site! A modern low end CPU can process upwards of 40GB/s of data. The last time I checked, the entire set of encyclopedia Brittanica is only around 1 GB. I don't know many blogs that approach that much information. At most, a blog probably only has around a few tens of Kilobytes of actual text. It should never take more than a second to process that, but it often takes upwards of 30 seconds to several minutes. This is what I was trying to emphasize before haha. Even if code isn't in the critical path, there's no reason it should take several seconds to do almost anything, unless it involves communicating over a network. We can stream audio/video data over a network in real time on low end computers through Zoom. That's gotta be processing several MB of information at least every second in real time. If we can do that, surely we should be able to build a static site generator that can generate any blog in under a second, right?