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		ThalesX on Sept 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and p... And then you add a single HTTP request and everything tones down to the speed of the web. Or I/O. Or DB call.

goodpoint on Sept 16, 2021 | [–]

More like: you add some javascript library and now the browser needs 5 seconds to run 10 MB of javascript.

knuthsat on Sept 17, 2021 | [–]

You can still support millions of these requests per second if you just bake all of the dependencies directly in a small OS running on your fastest raspberry pi.

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