> You cannot escape latency (without inventing another universe in which physics do not apply). And latency is detrimental to performance. This. So few people

> You cannot escape latency (without inventing another universe in which physics do not apply). And latency is detrimental to performance. This. So few people distinguish between bandwidth and latency. One can be increased arbitrarily and fairly easily with new encoding techniques (which generally only improves edge cases), and the other has a floor that is hard-coded into our universe. I've gotten into debates with folks who think a 10GB connection from the EU to Texas should be as fast as a connection from Texas to the Midwest, or to speed up the EU-TX connection they just need to spend more on bandwidth.