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Re:Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3 by irq-1 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @11:32AM (#19476878)
Two questions: can't large files continue to be served on HTTP2? and won't https://www.dpdk.org/ allow user-space network stacks to do segmentation, etc...? (Maybe it's too immature?)
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Re:Why We Love QUIC and HTTP/3 by Matthias247 on Sunday March 24, 2019 @12:07PM (#19477041)
Regarding the first question:

Even HTTP/2 involves some of the issues the parent mentions. HTTP/2 is not really helpful for large files, and might likely perform worse than HTTP/1.1 due to the additional insertion and parsing of control flow headers. HTTP/2 helps small files most, by avoiding the overhead of connection establishment for those.

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