Re:Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
by eastdakota on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:19AM
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Because Quiche, our HTTP/3 library, only supports CUBIC for congestion control, not more modern algorithms like BBR. Even without modern congestion control, HTTP/3 performs close to as fast as HTTP/2. We expect it’s performance will improve significantly when we implement BBR and other enhancements already in more mature protocols.
Re:Comparing HTTP/3 vs. HTTP/2 Performance
by moderation on Wednesday April 22, 2020 @10:23AM
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It looks like CUBIC was only just added today - https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/commit/f8bfb919ec17ef32...
> Overall, we’re very excited to be allowed to help push this standard forward. Our implementation is holding up well, offering better performance in some cases and at worst similar to HTTP/2. As the standard finalizes, we’re looking forward to seeing browsers add support for HTTP/3 in mainstream versions.
I feel like the conclusion should be "Hypothetical advantages of HTTP/3 still not realized," but they are "We're excited to be working on this", with no mention of... why. Like, why isn't HTTP/3 resulting in expected advantages; what might be changed to change this; what are you going to do to try to realize actual advantages to 'push the standard forward'? It seems like a standard for the sake of saying you have done something and have a standard, if there aren't any realized advantages, no?