On 2009-01-10 16:01 -0000 (Sat), dunacn wrote: > Also downloads seem to be serialised, again because there is probably > little benefit to making multiple connections to the same server.
You evidently don't live in Japan. :-) On high-bandwidth, high-latency links (e.g., Tokyo to a server in NYC, which has well over 200 ms latency just due to the distance) TCP doesn't work so well unless both sides are very well tuned for high bandwidth-latency products. I'm generally on a 100 Mbps fibre connection in Tokyo (it's the standard home or small office connection here), and parallel downloads are a very happy thing; in some circumstances I can run a dozen downloads in parallel, without any individual one being slower than it would be running alone. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[email protected]> +81 90 7737 2974 Functional programming in all senses of the word: http://www.starling-software.com _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
