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This page in a nutshell: Server performance is very important, but it's taken care of by the sysadmins, who know what they're doing. Try not to make policy decisions based on your understanding of performance issues. |
You, as a user, should not worry about site performance. In most cases, there is little you can do to appreciably speed up or slow down the site's servers. The software is, on the whole, designed to prohibit users' actions from slowing it down much.