Well a server sitting there doing nothing runs cool. A server fully
loaded runs hot. Doing 1000's of transforms will make it run hot. Hot
servers use more electricity, stress disks, stress memory and generally
die sooner. Let the reader pay ;-)

Ciao Chris

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> Hunsberger, Peter
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> Subject: RE:  xslt on server-side vs. client-side
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> > Lower electricity bills.
> 
> I'm not sure how having 1000's of clients perform a transform 
> 1 time each saves any electricity over 1 server performing 
> the same transform 1000 times?  In particular, considering 
> that the server has likely got everything cached and ready to 
> go by the 2nd time around...
> 
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