[tomc1985]

> the point is it usually has little to do with load and isn't easily solved by scaling horizontally.

My point exactly. Unless you're getting slammed with traffic, there's too much going on in a page load if it takes 300ms to spit out.

[nirvdrum]

If you can achieve the same rendered output much faster with a different runtime or with a rewrite or with a different framework, I don't think you're looking at a fundamental design flaw with the page. I'm happy to agree to disagree. Maybe there is too much going on with the page. But it's a common problem with Rails apps and is ideally solved without a rewrite. I think a faster runtime would be the ideal solution here.