> Yeh, it really depends on what your customer's tolerance is. I think 5
> minutes
> for a several hunderd page document is good, too. A different
> customer may find it
> too much to bear. If you're doing on-demand web-based
> applications, a minute may be too long.

Although, please be gentle to customers with slower links.  Serving up a
several hundred page document over a dial-up line when one only needs
chapter 3 is pretty rude.  I appreciate it if I am given the choice of
downloading an index, a particular chapter or the whole document.

As mentioned earlier, caching rendered documents can help performance too.

FWIW



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