Okay, so I just had the brilliant idea to look at the hardware I'm
running my dev server on. It turns out that the machine has only
500Megs ram and one cpu. In other cases where performance
was acceptable we had gigs of ram and multiple cpus, and this
will certainly be the case with our prod environment. So I think
we're out of emergency territory.
Nevertheless there is probably still room to improve
permission_p:
-- rip out "public" check or figure out why it's there
-- move fast checks to top
Don, how do you suggest we proceed?
