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    Chrome/Chromium -- "A 2x Faster Web"

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Hungry Man, May 18, 2011.

  1. Hungry Man

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    I realize this is an old blog post but it was recently written about in an article and it seemed like no one knew what it was.

    Chromium Blog: A 2x Faster Web
    SPDY - The Chromium Projects


    tl;dr: If you use Chromium/Chrome you will occasionally use the SPDY protocol instead of HTTP/HTTPS.

    "SPDY is an experiment with protocols for the web. Its goal is to reduce the latency of web pages."

    That Chromium blog is super old (2009) and it was back during testing.
     
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    Google says a lot of things.
     
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  3. Hungry Man

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    Not sure which part you're calling out here.
     
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    SPDY is an 'experiment' that ties a browser to googles closed and proprietary web cache servers.

    it also ties your browsing history and content to googles ad machine.

    A little personal research into goggles motivations here would be in order.
     
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    That's not what it does lol any server can implement this... it has nothing to do with Google's servers. It's a protocol like HTTPS or HTTPS.
     
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    It's an exclusive to google protocol.........
     
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    nah, it's right there, ready to download and use on your own server.

    anyways, i'd prefer to get the option to use a binary, pre-compiled version of the page available directly (based on the law situation, .net and not java. .net is at least really free to everyone). it's very inefficient today to download a page in all the pieces, and each piece is a different language that has to be parsed, compiled, error checked, and then run together. especially as the languages are rather loosely defined, parsing and combining is harder as needed. all the html, css and javascript parsing compiling and executing on client side is very inefficient. and transferring it in text is never as efficient (even with compression), than just having a binary form.

    so if you would like to boost the web (both for cpu usage, and transfer), you would have to get rid of the current html+css+javascript combination. present something unified, binary, open instead (and maybe replace http while doing it, too).


    btw, newsposter: google does a lot of exploring of any part of the web and it's performance impact. this is why the google homepage has a latency of 50ms on a typical system, even while it grew massively over the years.
     
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    It's an exclusive to Chrome protocol... it has nothing to do with Google's servers. Anyone can make use of this protocol and it has nothing to do with caching or storing information.

    @dave, yes they would be ideal but I don't think that'll happen for a long long time.
     
    Hungry Man, May 19, 2011
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