Re: The FAQ system approaches obsolescence. What do we do now?

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Doug Krause (dkrause@hydra.acs.uci.edu)
Wed, 07 Dec 94 05:11:53 -0800


David Barr <barr@pop.psu.edu> writes:

> WWW with a central cache (like with the CERN HTTPD) is already as
> efficient as it's going to get wrt a global on-demand distributed
> hypertext/limited multimedia system.

Doesn't http make a separate request for each document that it needs
to retrieve? Combine those into a single request and you should make
things noticeably better.

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