An attendee unfamiliar with Roda asks how a request finds its controller in a routing tree, since the cost has been moved from boot time to request time. Stephen Margheim answers: Ruby is fast enough, you don't process everything — you just walk code paths down the tree, which converges quickly; for genuinely hot paths you use inline hash-based dispatch (essentially O(1)), and the constant sub-millisecond boot enables the tests-plus-deploy-in-a-second vision. No acceptable tradeoff would give that up.