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It really depends, if the author was worrying about .1 of a second processing time on the back end for each script load you are exactly right. If the server is
by robryan 17y ago
It really depends, if the author was worrying about .1 of a second processing time on the back end for each script load you are exactly right.
If the server is crashing or only intermittently serving pages because of load there is nothing front end optimization can do about it.
I guess sometimes you also have to weigh up just adding some extra hardware to smooth a transition to a new back end, or even to buy some more time with the existing one.
- abarrera 17y agoI'm the author and I was talking more about not being able to load parts of the web due to timeouts with the backend. I run a very cpu hungry site and some parts took a lot to get computed and served. So again, I'm sorry for the confusion but I was talking about backend derived problems, not front-end although as I said previously, I'm well aware of them too :) But those don't take forever to fix, backend (usually) does