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Re:Kite: Thoughts on Security by Zombieball on Thursday April 21, 2016 @06:24PM (#11545760)
Uncompressed might indeed eat up tons of disk space.

Admittedly I was thinking of an SSD + some caching in RAM when thinking of this timing. But I was always under the impression an HDD seek would be on the order of 10's of ms? I'd assume a query to a cloud service would be on the order of 100-200ms.

Re:Kite: Thoughts on Security by MichaelGG on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:07PM (#11553956)
The network latency should be somewhere around 40ms assuming you're in the US on a proper connection. If a query takes 10 disk seeks (10ms each) vs 10 RAM accesses + HTTP parsing...