I'm not sure and I did not made any kind of test, but here 1.1 seems faster than 1.0. Is this just my impression?
I doubt there could be anything noticeable.
At least, I couldn't think of anything that would give a noticeable boost, but I may have miss some stuff, dunno.
Maybe that shiny new parser is helping
I didn't notice any change. Neither positive nor negative.
probably is just my impression, looking at the bottom of the page I got "Page created in 0,1x seconds" and sometimes 0,05 seconds which is similar to the previous version.
Or maybe my network is working better than usual :) At 1.0 AM people use to sleep :P
The svg sprites are certainly going to be faster than the mass of images if a site isn't using http/2
Even if you've inserted caching headers on all the images? Then they should only require additional transactions on the first page.