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> Generally if you have any of these: 1) unknown congestion 2) unknown speed 3) unknown tolerance for error > ... If you want to see a modern take on achieving
by ignoramous 7y ago
> Generally if you have any of these: 1) unknown congestion 2) unknown speed 3) unknown tolerance for error
> ... If you want to see a modern take on achieving reliable transmission over UDP check out HTTP/3.
Not an expert but I have seen folks here complain that QUIC / HTTP3 doesn't have a proper congestion control like uTP (BitTorrent over UDP) does with LEDBAT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546651 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546651
- wmf 7y agoLEDBAT-style congestion control is not proper for "foreground" Web traffic and it will result in lower performance than TCP-based HTTP. Fixing bufferbloat is an ongoing project and it isn't fair to blame QUIC for being no worse than TCP.