Yes, that's a viable option in many cases. But if your users are distributed around the world and most requests are read requests then it can make sense to sha

Yes, that's a viable option in many cases. But if your users are distributed around the world and most requests are read requests then it can make sense to shave 100 or 200 ms off your response times. You can always squander those gains later by running JavaScript for 5000 ms before showing anything :)