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Re: running summary on caching
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs () bifrost seastrom com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:43:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Peter Berger" <peterb () ncne org> It's worth noting that as pipes get bigger and faster, caching assumes a greater, not lesser, importance. Higher bandwidth and constant latency means a greater bandwidth-delay product, and a corresponding degradation in performance. Caching is just as much about local replication to reduce latency as it is about "conserving bandwidth." Particularly when a large proportion of the stacks out there perform very poorly under the prevailing conditions in today's Internet with its medium-to-high, jittery latencies and occasional to frequent packet loss (cough, cough, Redmond, cough). Far better to use a proxy on a platform like BSD that at least doesn't have an egg-sucking TCP implementation. ---Rob
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