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What is the advantage of polling over comet? I guess the real question is how often is a user re-polling the same value, without it changing. -Ben

• lhorie 18y ago
  Polling works out of the box with pretty much all web servers - the downside is that it's significantly slower and more resource intensive than comet.
  • simplegeek 18y ago
    >> the downside is that it's significantly slower and more resource intensive than comet. Any data or story to back that argument? Just curious.
    • lhorie 18y ago
      I don't have data available right now, but I have done quite a bit of research on server push technologies for one of my projects. It just comes down to bandwidth: regular polling consumes bandwidth (and the related client and server resources) even when there's no actual data being sent.