Speeding up jQuery AutoComplete (Unavoidably long lists)
I began my journey to speed up jQuery's autocomplete earlier this afternoon, and decided it was probably a good idea to begin memcaching everything. As suggested in this article: Speeding up autocomplete . However, I am still dealing with slow response time even after installing and using Memcached. The problem in my case is that I am dealing with extraordinarily long lists, in my case, over 6700 individual members. (All genera or genuses of all plants) The bottleneck seems to be constructing the table and populating the client-side list, and it is not caused by retrieving the information from