Re:Remarkable omission (Score 1)

The lower bound is very low, true. The distance between that lower bound and what's perceivable by a user, however, is generally substantial. Of course it depends on the application. There are certainly some applications where engineering the data stream to minimize client-side parsing and transformation time will be perceivable, and where the payoff in responsiveness is worth the development cost of that engineering. The shopping-cart application in this article sure as hell isn't one of them, though.