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 GENERAL:  Who is this plugin for?  Umm, why?  So give me the skinny, what are the highlights?  I've never heard of any of this stuff; my blog is fine, no one complains about the speed. Why should I install this?  But even Matt Mullenweg doesn't agree that additional caching is so important, why bother?  And how many years of university do I need to use this thing?  Ok, so the benefits are clear. What exactly is so special about *how* this plugin works?  Why would I want to cache my feeds?  Why would I want to put my JS at the bottom of the page?  What's an Etag and why do I need one?  So let me get this straight; you're telling me this plugin is designed to improve performance of any WordPress blog?  This is too good to be true, how can I test the results?  Does this plugin work with WordPress MU?  Does this plugin work with BuddyPress (bbPress)?  Which WordPress versions are supported?  I understand the database caching and the page caching, but what's minify all about?  What do you use to minify?  What's the point of downloading and caching 3rd party files (e.g. JS)?  Will this plugin break my theme by changing the order of conditional statements or the like?  Will this speed up WP Admin?  Does this plugin modify how the WordPress core works?  Does it really matter if I remove the line breaks from my code?  What's the benefit of removing HTML comments from my code?  Why is used to embed CSS instead of