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Date:      Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:43:00 +0300
From:      Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c uipc_socket2.c src/sy
Message-ID:  <20000616184300.W7810@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20000616095723.6C4771CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from peter@netplex.com.au on Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:57:23AM -0700
References:  <marcs@znep.com> <20000616095723.6C4771CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>

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On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:57:23AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> This is a cheap tweak that has a *MASSIVE* performance win in the most
> performance critical of all the internet protocols.  To the bulk of the
> population that is internet aware, the internet == HTTP/HTML.  If there is
> anywhere that we can get a cheap, easy win that has very large payback,
> this is it.  As I understand it, on the yahoo.com servers we can get an

I am generally very conservative about breaking architectural standards,
but I think that people should put a lot of thinking on the observation
above. From research papers on Internet traffic that I have seen recently
you could pretty much say that Internet IS HTTP. So please, don't blatantly
reject such a change. If this can be done in an arhitecture-consistent way
that doesn't take 10 manmonths to complete, great. Otherwise, lets hack ;-)

-past


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