Re: 404 Re: Comments on the Triple Patterns Fragments draft

> The time it requires to 
> process an incoming TPF locally is negligible compared to the time it requires 
> to (i) request the TPF, (ii) wait for the server to prepare its response, and 
> (iii) retrieve the response---and spending a little bit more local processing 
> time to parse the body of the TPF is not going to change that

There could be a win in (ii) because less time to generate responses
and (iii) because less TPC packets to send for HEAD (bodies are verbose).
So the win would mostly be in smaller responses;
the fact that we don't need parsing would just be a result of that.

> My results show that the fraction of 
> query execution time that is required for the local processing is negligible. 

Absolutely—and like Kjetil, I too bow for your empirical evidence :-)

> So, potential performance improvements of SPARQL over an LDF collection cannot 
> be used as an argument for indicating empty TPFs by a 404.

Good, then the only remaining argument is quite weak.
I'm fully convinced now; I will update the client implementation to reflect this.

Thanks a lot!

Ruben

Received on Friday, 1 August 2014 11:52:45 UTC