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A comment on The Effect of Network and Infrastructural Variables on SPDY’s Performance (2014). Parent comment

Re:The Effect of Network and Infrastructural Variables on SP... by xyzzyz on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:14AM (#10258029)
* Yup, Each dropped packet pauses the entire connection until its retransmitted. *

Yeah, that's why the next step after SPDY/HTTP2 adoption is QUIC, which moves the web to UDP, and solves the head-of-line blocking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC

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Re:The Effect of Network and Infrastructural Variables on SP... by userbinator on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @11:09AM (#10259054)
which moves the web to UDP

That sounds like it'd just cause more congestion and dropped packets if not used carefully - and they'll eventually end up reinventing TCP on top of UDP...

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Re:The Effect of Network and Infrastructural Variables on SP... by KaiserPro on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @05:08PM (#10268252)
or just create one virtual stream across multiple sockets
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