Since setting up my development environments on Mac OS X Lion (brand new macbook air purchased in January 2012), I have noticed that resolving to a virtual host is very slow (around 3 seconds) the first time but after that is fast as long as I continue loading it regularly. If I leave it untouched for a couple of minutes and then reload again, the first reload is (again) painfully slow; seems like
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