The latency I'm talking about is this:

maemo.org webserver has to do several queries to the talk database. If I ping your server from maemo.org, I get about 150ms delay.

If I need to do 10 queries(Which is probably far too low) it takes at least 1.5 seconds to get the data. And I'm not counting work and datatransfers at that time. If you have parts in your script where you need data that is fetched in a previous query, this will increase more. And all this time no data is sent out to the user.

Whenever you run your database server and webserver at different locations, you really start to see this effect.

Another question is, how would you render the comments inside a maemo.org page?