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by TeMPOraL 1202 days ago
Which is precisely the point made couple comments up. Calling a lot of virtual methods in the critical path is peanuts compared to making a lot of network requests in said critical path.

But hey, those network calls are fast on my loopback interface, or my company LAN, when I'm playing with the dev version, using test set simulating 2 users and 5 posts for each. Surely it'll be just as fast for the real users, over the Internet, on channels with 1000 users and 5 posts per second.