250 HTTP request per second of static files is peanuts (heck, my website can sustain 10 thousand). But 250 HTTP requests affecting dynamic content on bitcointal

250 HTTP request per second of static files is peanuts (heck, my website can sustain 10 thousand). But 250 HTTP requests affecting dynamic content on bitcointalk.org is a bigger engineering pb: the average page is 100kB of dynamically rendered HTML supporting per-user theme, and most HTTP requests modify content (forum post) or are expensive requests (post searches). Theymos has been improving the forum software, and is offering bounties to people to implement certain things.