Is using absolute links on a webpage slow?

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The webserver will pull local stuff regardless of relative or absolute links.

However, instead of : "http://www.myserver.com/directory/images/img.jpg"

why not use : "/directory/images/img.jpg" - using the pre-slash it does not matter about the root url since HTML/PHP/JavaScript will now reference from the root and not the relative directory.