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I mean, we're probably not talking about a dozen milliseconds out of 20 seconds total, we're talking about extra milliseconds for every request or roundtrip or
by ben0x539 8y ago
I mean, we're probably not talking about a dozen milliseconds out of 20 seconds total, we're talking about extra milliseconds for every request or roundtrip or w/e constituting those 20 seconds. It's an extra cost that scales with the bloat you're decrying, it doesn't become insignificant next to it!
- zlynx 8y agoIndeed. When I use Firefox dev tools to open Facebook I see over 300 requests. 300! Many of those are loaded over the same HTTP/2 connection. And a lot of those are cached. But that's still a lot of TCP connections to multiple servers opening up and every bit of added latency slows it all down.