[tosseraccount]

Perhaps there's a misunderstanding in the term "turnaround". I meant it in this sense t = x + y + z. where t = total time, x = send time , y = processing time, z = send back to user time. If you can decrease y, you decrease "t". Responsiveness is important to users. With the advent of large and extremely fast memory cache, small program size will dramatically increase program execution speed by have small code and small data already in cache. Smaller program executable will enable many more instances on a real physical node. Size matters. Speed matters.