peter was making the point that moore's law won't, for example, make my round-trip latency from sf to boston much less than 90ms, so optimizing to reduce round-

peter was making the point that moore's law won't, for example, make my round-trip latency from sf to boston much less than 90ms, so optimizing to reduce round-trip times (and to a lesser extent, bandwidth) will _always_ be necessary to design snappy interfaces on the web.