> A good analogy is a bus system. If you had zero batching for passengers - if, whenever someone got on a bus, the bus departed immediately - commutes would be much faster for the people who managed to get on a bus.

A good analogy? I wonder... how do buses work at your place? Do they wait to be at least half-full before departing? I used to do that in the Simutrans game!

Where I'm from, buses usually depart on schedule, whether you get on the bus or not...

[Edit:] Otherwise an insightful article I guess.