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* HTML layout. While old-school, the time to render the page in the browser is a very small fraction of the overall load time, much less than server-side generation and network transmission times. Again, this is verifiable with Firefox's Web Developer Tools.
* Hardware infrastructure. The webheads have ample processing power and memory.
* Perl. Perl isn't a slow language by nature (it is pre-compiled to opcode akin to Java and Python), and there are modern high performance sites built using Perl, such as [http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216392-architecture Duck Duck Go].
