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Re:HN no longer supporting SPDY by rdl on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @05:10AM (#5703726)
It's lower overhead for the server, too.
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Re:HN no longer supporting SPDY by nodata on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @05:19AM (#5703753)
Do you know how much lower overhead?
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Re:HN no longer supporting SPDY by rdl on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @05:48AM (#5703830)
Well, it's not just the front end; it's the load balancer and whatever other infrastructure, since it packs things into a single connection more effectively. For hn, not an issue (since it's a single nginx in front of a single threaded arc process).

http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-best-practices seems legit.

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Re:HN no longer supporting SPDY by EvilLook on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @08:08AM (#5704312)
Have you measured your gains?
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