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Why optimize before they need to? They've done well so far with the current js loading and now they're optimizing b/c it's time.

Because it seems to use up a lot of bandwidth and slows the client.

I just looked at the JS in Firebug, and it's over 100kb for the static portion.

It was rhetorical question. Build your app fast. Then optimize later, when you have scale.