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> QUIC uses more CPU, due to the processing in user-space. That’s not inherent to the QUIC protocol itself though, that’s an implementation decision. There is
by skissane 4y ago
> QUIC uses more CPU, due to the processing in user-space.
That’s not inherent to the QUIC protocol itself though, that’s an implementation decision. There is no fundamental reason why QUIC couldn’t be implemented in kernel-space, such an implementation would still be conforming.
- iamcalledrob 4y agoAbsolutely, and it would be great if there was OS support here. TCP processing can be also offloaded to network cards today, so the same might need to happen for QUIC to be similarly efficient.