Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Is sendfile all that sexy? (fwd)]]

kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 21:03:43 +0300 (MSK)


Hello!

> is there really
> much value in the second request flowing to the server before the first
> byte of the reply has hit?

Yes, of course, it has lots of sense: f.e. all the icons, referenced
parent page are batched to single well-coalesced stream without rtt delays
between them. It is the only sense of pipelining yet.

Otherwise, you get http/1.0 with keepalives.

Alexey
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