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>The start time might suck, but once you're going, you're going. Average users will barely even notice a start time of up to 1 second. 500ms will seem fast to
by midoridensha 4y ago
>The start time might suck, but once you're going, you're going.
Average users will barely even notice a start time of up to 1 second. 500ms will seem fast to them, for starting a video.
Typing a document in Google Docs and having a 1000ms round-trip latency for every letter they type, however, will quickly become annoying.
- alexeldeib 4y agoI was thinking of streaming video, where the first load might be a lot heavier to buffer you to a state where you don't get choppy playback. Yeah, regardless of throughput, you're going to have a bad time with interactive workloads with high latency.