title: Does loading an image take longer than rendering a character?
body: <p>Rails 4.0.10: I have a page with a list of records, which will probably end up being a few thousand records long. I want to add a delimiter, which will print after each record.</p>
  
  <p>I'm considering using a image for this delimiter. Would loading an image after every record take significantly longer than just adding a comma after every record?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Here are the two scenarios:</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>1.)</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;% Records.all.each do |r| %&gt;
    &lt;%= r.name %&gt;
    &lt;%= image_tag("Delimiter.jpg") %&gt;
  &lt;% end %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>2.)</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;% Records.all.each do |r| %&gt;
    &lt;%= r.name %&gt;&amp;nbsp,&amp;nbsp
  &lt;% end %&gt;
  </code></pre>