Brain Murmurs

We have been spending some time working on general performance improvements in Mentat. You should be able to see the fruits of our labors immediately.

Both the Agenda page and the Projects page have received some love. The loading times have been drastically improved, and we should no longer be getting in our own way when it comes to element caching.

We (re)discovered several things —

1. If you wish to verify performance gains, do NOT run Firebug. It seems to get in the way.
2. When comparing the page loading performance between non-beta versions of Safari and Firefox, Safari kicks butt. Seriously.
3. EXPLAIN and indices can be very useful in MySQL.
4. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a fully loaded station wagon. (Okay, maybe that one doesn’t have anything to do with Mentat)

And now back to your previously scheduled program. If you didn’t have a previously scheduled program, allow us to recommend Battlestar Galactica. It, like Safari, kicks butt.

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