Web pages should be blazing fast on *25 year old* machines, modulo a little lag from more serious crypto.<\/p>\n
Like, I should be able to build *1998 Mozilla* against a modern SSL stack on my Silicon Graphics O2, and browsing the web should be nearly as fast as it was using Netscape Navigator 4 on that system when it shipped.<\/p>\n
The sole reason it\u2019s not is the hubris of the people developing those web pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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