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I might rant about HTTP/2 sooner or later. It's a backwards-compatibility-breaking protocol that really doesn't do shit.
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Voxera116406y@AlgoRythm it improves performance quite a bit.
Especially on sites with many extra resources, for simple pages, not so much. -
@Voxera The performance boost is really only noticeable in certain situations... and you can achieve the same performance with http/1 with a little bit of a custom connection. It's really not worth breaking backwards compatibility over, whatsoever.
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@AlgoRythm sometimes you have to break things to move forward.
Also the goal AFAIK is to have a high-level compatibility with HTTP. -
@AlgoRythm Definetely! HTTP/1.1 is a dinosaur. It's made for a static web.
We tried to improve our old messenger, with pipelining... but that didn't work well.
It won't solve all our problems but it's a good step forward imho. -
Voxera116406ySoon http3 will start rolling out where tcp is replaced with a udp like protocol called quik to further improve performance.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This will give webpages the same possible response time as games, sub 50 milliseconds for small requests. -
@Voxera That is neat. I don't think http/2 is near. It still runs TCP and the only change is streams. Not enough good for me to abandon all of my websockets
Look ma, HTTP/2!
And it's retarded!
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