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This is one of those problems that basically no one has. RTT from Japan to Washington D.C. is 160ms. There's very few applications where that amount of additi
by treis 4y ago
This is one of those problems that basically no one has. RTT from Japan to Washington D.C. is 160ms. There's very few applications where that amount of additional latency matters.
- naavis 4y agoIt adds up surprisingly quickly when you have to do a TLS handshake, download many resources on pageload etc. The TLS handshake alone costs 3 round-trips over the network.
- treis 4y agoTLS is cached though. Your 3 round trips is 1/2 second on initial load but then should be reused for subsequent requests. Resources should be served through a CDN so you'll get local servers for those.