Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> writes: > Authentication is one problem, because serf sends many pipelined > requests and gets 403 authorization required reply, and only after > that sends requests with authorization headers. This is place for > optimization.
Auth will obviously contribute, but I can reproduce it without auth. Serf makes uses multiple requests while neon uses a single report. Obviously there is some overhead per-request, parsing headers, socket IO, and as the files get smaller that overhead becomes more significant. -- Philip
