- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:11:49 +1000
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Stefan Eissing <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>, URI <uri@w3.org>, Joe Gregorio <joe@bitworking.org>
On 17/10/2007, at 3:06 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: >> Ceterum censeo: in my view the templates would benefit from an >> easier readable syntax. > > Easy to read by whom? I went through the readable bits with HTTP > and it turned out to be a big mistake. Nobody reads HTTP in real > practice, yet the overhead of parsing HTTP messages is huge. I do, and my developers do; it greatly helps them understand and debug the protocol. WRT parsing overhead -- commodity hardware can easily saturate a gigabit Ethernet with 1K responses to GETs. "Huge" is an overstatement. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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