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> (Pet example: if you designed websites as data structures and the browser to support doing so efficiently, 90% of requests on a site like Reddit would be a single `memcpy`.)

Formatting a webpage cannot be done by a simple memcpy, especially since you don't know the size of the browser window in advance.

But perhaps I didn't understand the point you were trying to make.



I mean on the server-side. Right now the process between "I want thread 35va5k" and "I want to render this html" makes extremely inefficient use of both servers and network.




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