And this is why you don’t want to be a developer…

Okay, I’ve been up for the past 3 hours working on zymio (just finished timezones, woot!) and decided to check how I was doing.  So I opened up the profile page as it’s the heaviest one and checked the CPU time.

350.746 milliseconds?  What the —-?

I should look into some caching.  That, or I hope that DreamHost’s servers are up to the task.  Also, I hope that this is just caused by django’s built-in server.

For those that don’t understand: Essentially, the smaller that Total CPU time number is, the better.  350 milliseconds, albeit just over a third of a second, may be quick enough for a single person accessing the site.  However, the more users you have online simultaneously, the longer it will take to load and that processing time piles up quickly.