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Re: HTTP protocol v2: rethunk.

From: Greg Hudson <ghudson_at_MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:29:52 -0500

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 09:18 -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> I'd have to defer this question to the serf experts. There's an
> unspoken assumption that saturating the pipe with parallel (and/or
> pipelined) requests is always a speed gain, but I actually don't know
> of evidence to back this up. Maybe it's out there, though.

So, ignoring HTTP, the theory is that if you want to transfer a big file
really fast, you should open like ten TCP connections and transfer
tenth-sized chunks of it in parallel?

I really doubt that's any faster, and if it ever is, it's only because
you're being a bad network citizen and grabbing a bigger share of a
congested pipe.

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