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* Yup, Each dropped packet pauses the entire connection until its retransmitted. * Yeah, that's why the next step after SPDY/HTTP2 adoption is QUIC, which move
by xyzzyz 11y ago
* Yup, Each dropped packet pauses the entire connection until its retransmitted. *
Yeah, that's why the next step after SPDY/HTTP2 adoption is QUIC, which moves the web to UDP, and solves the head-of-line blocking.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC
- userbinator 11y agowhich moves the web to UDP That sounds like it'd just cause more congestion and dropped packets if not used carefully - and they'll eventually end up reinventing TCP on top of UDP...
- KaiserPro 11y agoor just create one virtual stream across multiple sockets