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HTTP Intermediary Layer From Google Could Dramatically Speed Up the Web

Posted by timothy on from the sufficient-disclosure dept.

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."

10 of 406 comments (clear)

  1. If I use it by overlordofmu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Will I successfully be able to first-post?

  2. Nawlinwiki is a fucking bastard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So is PeterSymonds, J.delanoy, Pmdrive1061, Pathoschild and Tnxman301

    Vandalize Wikipedia today.

  3. april fools! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah, we all believe you

  4. First Post! by FreshlyShornBalls · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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  5. First Post ! by feufeu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...if i had used SPDY...

  6. Re:Oh that's wonderful by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  7. Re:Oh that's wonderful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At the time I viewed this, the mods have decided to give funny mods to the person you said, and mod you as a troll... clearly, you should be insightful, whereas this post should be the troll.

  8. Re:Oh that's wonderful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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

  9. Re:Oh that's wonderful by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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  10. Should have happened long ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I am with Linus on this one
    Linus is right
    The man makes sense
    He is absolutely correct on this one