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Re: HTTP 2.0 performance is slower than HTTP 1.1 in libcurl

From: Rajiullah Shammi <mrshammi_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 12:47:11 +0200

Hi!

What I can deduce from what I saw in the encrypted traces, in h2
coversation, client server does key exchange (SSL) / similar thing in every
now and then that really inflates the number of RTTs. So, Daniel, do you
have any plan to look into the matter in any time soon?
Thanks.

Mohd. Rajiullah
KaU

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 May 2016, Ganesh Nikam wrote:
>
> Looking at all the documentation available about HTTP 2.0, it seems that
>> it should perform better than HTTP 1.1 (Here we are measuring performance
>> on the basis of time taken to perform X number of request to particular web
>> server).
>>
>
> I don't think we can expect that it always will perform better, but in
> most cases it certainly should. Assuming HTTPS, the same ciphers, similar
> network sitation etc.
>
> But as I just mentioned the other day: we have not yet had the change to
> work a lot on optimizing our h2 transfers so I'm sure we're not doing
> everything the best possible way yet. Maybe we're even doing plain stupid
> things.
>
> Getting (reproducable) testing going is a great first step. Rajiullah
> Shammi posted a great test setup the other day, basically saying the same
> thing you say (on a different test scenario):
> https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2016-05/0080.html
>
> Next we need to do careful traces of libcurl runs to see where the time is
> spent (wasted) and what to do about it.
>
> Internal conversion of the response header (from HTTP 2.0 to HTTP 1.1) make
>> HTTP 2.0 slower ?
>>
>
> I doubt that particular functionality has any measureable impact, but as I
> said: we need to measure and trace to understand where we need to improve.
>
> --
>
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