You are right, that Arachne's still noticabe slower than Netscape.
Paralell download of two images at once helped a lot, but Arachne now
needs "Keep alive" option.
Historicaly, response of server to connection request used to be quite
fast, but as more and more browsers supported Keep-alive HTTP option, it
was no longer important to quickly respond to connection requests. And
connection request itself requires cca 3 extra packets to be negotiated
in both ways, so if some page contains 20 or more very small images,
browsers which can't handle Keep-alive are in great disadvantage.
Using of many small images is very common now, but in the begining,
all web pages looked like Yahoo, ie. they used maximum number of 2-3
images...
It should be relatively easy to add Keep-alive to Arachne, because
Arachne anyway uses only one pair of sockets allocated for all data
transfers....
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