Does using jQuery.get effectively double the ping time?
<p>Suppose I have some script myScript.js that uses jQuery.get() to retrieve a small piece of data from the server.  Suppose also that my ping time is horrible at 1500ms.  Does using jQuery.get effectively double the ping time to 3000ms?  </p>

<p>Or is there async magic that allows some sort of parallel processing?  The reason I'm asking is that we use jQuery.get() fairly liberally and I'm wondering if it is an area we need to look at optimizing.</p>

<p>Edit: double compared to if I can somehow rearrange things to just load all the data upon the initial load and bypass jQuery get altogether</p>
