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

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David Barr (barr@pop.psu.edu)
Wed, 07 Dec 1994 09:23:20 -0500

In message <199412071311.AA05130@hydra.acs.uci.edu>, Doug Krause writes:
>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.
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>Doesn't http make a separate request for each document that it needs
>to retrieve?

Yes.

>Combine those into a single request and you should make
>things noticeably better.

Noticeably to whom?

Netscape uses multiple requests simultaneously resulting in a huge
speedup over sequential connections. (in fact it's a huge speedup
over a single multiple-request-conection)

The bandwidth difference (which is what we're talking about) between
an individual-request-connection versus multiple-request-connection
system is negligible.

--Dave

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