[horsawlarway]

I somehow don't think I'm the one with the delicate little worldview in this conversation.

I think the delicate little worldview is the folks who consistently refuse to accept that performance just doesn't matter that much.

When performance does matter, it's usually because the value provided by the service is SUPER FUCKING LOW.

like say... twitter, or facebook. Which both are so worthless they can't reliably get users to pay for the service at all, and instead are selling ads to users and need to optimize the time they spend on the site.

Basically - if the difference between a customer choosing your product or not is latency measured in ms/seconds... you sell a fucking shite product.

Guessing you sell a fucking shitty product?