Re:HTTP/3: Everything you need to know about the next-genera...
by aseipp on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:44PM
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> This is probably mostly useful when downloading many small images.
It's useful for much more than that; I'd actually argue stream multiplexing is most useful outside of the browser in bespoke HTTP APIs, because that's a place where you can just stumble on cases where high fan-out requests are useful. For the browser case you're often limited by things like pagination, while JS/CSS can be amalgamated.
Not that it isn't good for small images too! But APIs benefit a lot as well and I think that's easily forgotten.
It's useful for much more than that; I'd actually argue stream multiplexing is most useful outside of the browser in bespoke HTTP APIs, because that's a place where you can just stumble on cases where high fan-out requests are useful. For the browser case you're often limited by things like pagination, while JS/CSS can be amalgamated.
Not that it isn't good for small images too! But APIs benefit a lot as well and I think that's easily forgotten.