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No one is forcing anyone to use slowstart. You can also disable things like Nagles to improve latency on small packets. > Even on an infinite bandwidth link, s
by dilyevsky 4y ago
No one is forcing anyone to use slowstart. You can also disable things like Nagles to improve latency on small packets.
> Even on an infinite bandwidth link, sending a small blob of JSON -- say 200 kilobytes -- will take pretty much the same time as it would on a 1 Gbps link!
Technically that’s incorrect- that will take rtt+200kb/rate assuming your window is over 200kb. So depending on how large rtt is bw component may or may not be significant