For me this is very noticeable whenever I open a new Chrome tab. It takes 3+ seconds for the icons of the recently visited sites to appear, whatever cache is us

For me this is very noticeable whenever I open a new Chrome tab. It takes 3+ seconds for the icons of the recently visited sites to appear, whatever cache is used for the favicons is extremely slow. Thankfully the disk cache for other resources runs at a more normal speed.