The slowness of PM is caused by DB slowness. (It's IO from the point of view of the web server. I don't know if it's CPU or disk from the point of view of the DB server, so I hesitate to call it "IO" without further specificis.) And actualy,your idea would cause a check if the cached version of downloadcode is up to date for each note displayed. But that's very minor compared to the overhead of displaying a new (full) page.
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