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...iptaculous core scripts. I''m not going to go into lengthy details about this, but it has to do with unrolling costly loops (namely all the checks that happen as you drag something around the screen). Basically, you can use the following implementation of Duff''s Device (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/10/) to unroll loops instead of using the ".each" command. But like I said, this is advanced and modifying the core scripts is not recommended unless you know what you are doing. (I''m really only including this for those that, like me, need to squeeze the most performan...

There''s a good article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4616700.stm that says, in a nutshell, that people form their impression of a Web site in 50 milliseconds. With an 80K download for prototype, that leads me to ask: "how can page sizes be trimmed and still use cool features"? I recognize that browsers may feel free to download these scripts asynchronously, but