A couple of days ago the DrProject team sent mail asking about how to optimize their use of Dojo, and luckily the solution was easily at hand. By using the build system the DrProject team was able to speed up their load times by 300% and drop the number of requests from 35 to 4.

We think one of the most powerful things Dojo can do is to give you all the tools that those of use building the toolkit use to improve our own apps. It gets to the very heart of our "build with, not on" philosophy. Dojo gives you a set of integrated tools that anticipate your future needs and the ability to quickly construct custom solutions with Dojo's rich set of building blocks. Sure, you could go with server-specific solutions or even use pre-rolled tools to improve the performance, but at the end of the day the tools that make you most successful are the ones that can be maintained by you, in your project, without requiring that you change the way you develop.