[Rails] optimization

[Bob Aman]

In the interests of making clear exactly what I'm trying to do, I
suppose I should just hand out a link.  It's running on my home
machine, so anybody looking at the archives 10 years from now: don't
expect this to work.

http://67.138.254.231:3000/person/show/1

Takes around 10 secs render time + 0.6 sec DB time on my Athlon 64
3500 with Webrick.
I don't know how much of the "render" time is actually being spent on
pulling data from flickr.  None of that is cached yet.  Working on
that.

Ideally, I'd like every page to get generated and served in less than
0.5 secs.  Is this an unreasonable goal for the content I'm trying to
deliver?
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Bob Aman