Note that the original subject is a bit misleading, the issue is not about ssl POST, but POST in general, whether on http or https.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd < an...@magsys.co.uk> wrote: > > I still have some Windows 7 VMs, so will do more testing next > > week, once the new OpenSSL stuff is finished. > > Not done any changes or real testing yet, except to confirm that HTTPS > downloads are currently the same speed as HTTP, although one would > expect the encryption overhead to slow things down. > > I have just discovered that all SSL traffic seems to use a fixed 4K > buffer in wsocket, which I'll make variable sized. > > I suspect one reason we are currently seeing good speeds even with low > buffer sizes is simply that the modern hardware we now use is so > powerful and it can cope with programming deficiencies without > performance penalty. > > All my clients and servers (bar one) are 64-bit OSs with 16G of memory > and multi-core i5 or Xeon, my main development PC is SSD drives, less > important for the servers since files are RAM cached. And the latest > CPUs have instructions to speed up SSL encryption. > > But this was all different even five years ago and if repeat testing on > older hardware, I'm sure it will be much slower and the benefits of > larger buffers and buffered file handling more obvious. Not sure it's > worth the effort... > > Angus > > > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be > -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
