Do custom components run faster in production digital assistant instances vs. development?

Summary:

Been experiencing slowness issues (lag of 20-30 seconds) when invoking custom component in an Oracle Web channel. When I use our production instance, the slowness seems to go away.

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We have a development version of our digital assistant instances with Scope: Development: (see here for more: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/digital-assistant/doc/order-service-and-provision-instance.html#GUID-37B9CE07-8D89-4FEC-BACC-BDB09BC07DD8 under "Create an Oracle Digital Assistant Service Instance")

We have a custom component that is being called as part of our skill. It lags quite badly in the development instance but when I switched to the production instance, there was no lag.