Hi.. I've built a cms that's running into a serious speedbump. I load several sets of javascript through a custom built db caching&compression system. Loading it without caching and compression takes between 2 and 3 seconds for the entire app, 112Kb javascript. The caching system first compresses/obfusicates the requested source-files, then gzcompress()es that and stores the result in my database. The next time the page is requested, the caching system detects the cached copy, and outputs that with an echo statement. One of these code bundles that i request takes over 6 full seconds to load. It's the same 122Kb obfusi-compressed to 52Kb. Even without obfusication, it takes 6 seconds to load when taken from the database. So it's not the browser being slow in parsing the obfusicated code. Firebug's "net"-tab shows this one snippet taking 6 seconds. I don't know exactly what that measures, just the transit time i hope.. I suspected the database query, but retrieval takes less than a millisecond. So does the 'echo' statement that outputs it. I'm really puzzled as to what can cause such a delay.
