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"If the update is a tenth of the size, we can push ten times as many per unit of bandwidth. We have enough users that this means more users will be protected ea
by txxxxd 17y ago
"If the update is a tenth of the size, we can push ten times as many per unit of bandwidth. We have enough users that this means more users will be protected earlier."
- aminuit 17y agoYes I read the article as well. The issue is that Google probably has as close as you can get to an infinite amount of bandwidth, which makes this sort of a low priority item. I don't want to trivialize the technology; it's obviously very cool stuff, but it's the solution to a problem I doubt they ever had. "Hi everyone, welcome to the Monday morning Chrome staff meeting. Um... so we've gotten some push back from management. They -- guys you're not going to believe this -- they think we might be using too much bandwidth. I tried to make a snarky joke about YouTube, but they weren't having any of it. So, um... we're gonna go ahead and pull two or three guys from the [INSERT IMPORTANT BROWSER COMPONENT THAT WILL LEAD TO A BETTER BROWSER HERE] team and have them work on making the updates smaller."