RE: Should Web Services be served by a different HTTP n+1?

Roberto Peon wrote:
> The worst part is the high latency, especially given TCP's
> current cogestion avoidance implementations-- the total number
> of round-trips ends up dominating latency, regardless of how
> much bandwidth one has.

Why is this being addressed by trying to make the messages smaller? Wouldn't following the original architecture of HTTP, which was optimized for fewer, larger messages, also reduce latency?


Robert Brewer
fumanchu@aminus.org

Received on Friday, 25 January 2013 00:45:00 UTC