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Simon Spero ([email protected])

Good evening one and all, and welcome to www-speed.

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This list is dedicated to the proposition that the web is just too darned slow, and that some of its key components have inherent performance problems that cannot be dealt with without changes to protocols.

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Current Attractions

MDMA - Multithreaded Daemon for Multimedia Access

Analysis of HTTP/1.0 performance problems


Ok, pop quiz. There's a server on a bus. It's rigged to blow if it drops below 50 transaction per second. What do you do?