Highlights the best performing architectural choices for a DOJO/Ajax based application. The article is referenced by the DOJO toolkit itself in the Performance Optimization documentation section.
In the last month or two we've had a number of tickets filed on the Rails Trac asking that Prototype adopt a more rigid syntax. Doing so would make it much easier to compress Prototype with tools like JSMin and Packer.
In order to improve the overall performance of a web application we have to reduce a load on our servers. It can be done in many ways depending on your business requirements.