HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web

grmoc writes "As part of the 'Let's make the web faster' initiative, we (a few engineers — including me! — at Google, and hopefully people all across the community soon!) are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of Web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced 'SPeeDY'), an application-layer protocol (essentially a shim between HTTP and the bits on the wire) for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In addition to a rough specification for the protocol, we have hacked SPDY into the Google Chrome browser (because it's what we're familiar with) and a simple server testbed. Using these hacked up bits, we compared the performance of many of the top 25 and top 300 websites over both HTTP and SPDY, and have observed those pages load, on average, about twice as fast using SPDY. Thats not bad! We hope to engage the open source community to contribute ideas, feedback, code (we've open sourced the protocol, etc!), and test results."

Comments

If I use it

[overlordofmu]

Will I successfully be able to first-post?

First Post!

[FreshlyShornBalls]

Would this make the obligatory "first post" happen even quicker?

Re:Oh that's wonderful

[Captain Splendid]

Jeez, but the mods have trigger fingers. Note to the idiots: If parent had included a link to goatse in his post, a troll mod would be justified.

As it is, just give him a couple of funny mods and untwist your panties.

Re:Oh that's wonderful

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

by Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful)

The problem is that just about any idiot can get mod points on /. It doesn't make their mods correct - just there.

Funny timing. We're having this conversation over here. According to the dudes with the mod points, the Slashdot moderation system is one of the best and any idiot can mod. Heh.