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Speed: 74ms 241ms … LOL … These 30 ms and 4 ms numbers were typical Apache to Netscape from MAE East and MAE West in 1998. Twenty five years and orders o
by Terretta 10mo ago
Speed:
74ms
241ms
… LOL …
These 30 ms and 4 ms numbers were typical Apache to Netscape from MAE East and MAE West in 1998. Twenty five years and orders of magnitude more computing later? Same numbers.
- usrnm 10mo agoI know, right? Almost 30 years and no progress in the speed of light? What are all these engineers even doing?
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 10mo agoRight right! Like we used to have concord back in the day and we are just getting slower innit.
- kenonet 10mo agoFor real
- elcritch 10mo agoI believe that FTL communication (if it's achievable) will start out in data centers at small scales. Perhaps millimeters. Possibly as an extension of Quantum Computing where some probabilistic asymmetry can be taken advantage of. The QC itself might not be faster than classical computing, but the FTL comms could improve memory and cache access. Also MetaGoog will use it to serve up hyper personalized ads in their Gemini based Metaverse.
- davidmurdoch 10mo agoBut now it's that fast from almost everywhere on the planet, with nearly zero effort from the developer. We've been limited by light speed here, not compute.
- gnz11 10mo agoI get 381ms/401ms on first load and not the claimed ~30ms. I'm not really sure what the point is here though. CDNs and browser cache headers work? Static sites are fast to paint?
- davidmurdoch 10mo agoYeah, I'm not seeing fast uncached times either. I usually hit Cloudflare's Miami datacenter, which is only about 200 miles and very low latency. But I'm seeing 200+ms on this site right now.
- Eikon 10mo agoMost cloudflare products are very slow / offer very poor performance. I was surprised by this but that’s just how it is. It basically negates any claimed performance advantage. Durable objects, r2 as well as tunnel have been particularly poor performing in my experience. Workers has not been a great experience either. R2 in particular has been the slowest / highest latency s3 alternative I ever had experience with, falling behind backblaze b2, wasabi and even hetzner’s object storage.
- aatd86 10mo agogot 12/31ms and 6/13ms cached so Cloudlfare muat not be that slow in Europe after all... ;)
- Aurornis 10mo agoI also got initial load times in that range. The site should be faster, though. I’ve had a small CF workers project that works correctly with quick load times.
- PunchyHamster 10mo agonah, most sites are fat enough that both bandwidth and compute is the limit. Getting it closer can save you 50-150ms, but if whole load takes 1s+ that's minuscule
- weird-eye-issue 10mo agoPhysics. It's literally just physics. And with Workers they're accessible from hundreds of locations around the world so you can get this sort of speed from almost anywhere.
- neogodless 10mo agoSpeed: 350ms 1330ms Is the site getting slower?