Hi Kuba,

Can you clarify what exactly your script does re "download"?
It seems it issues HTTP GET, but does it fully consume response?
Does it get all the bytes of the artifact, or just the parses response
header(s) and throws the rest?

Thanks
T

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 4:49 PM Jakub Bartecek <jbart...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I did a performance test of HTTP/2 and its comparison with HTTP/1.1 and I
> would like to share my results with you.
>
> I wrote a Python script [1] to download 100 artifacts in parallel using
> asynchronous HTTP client supporting both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. I chose 100
> artifacts [2] from Maven Central, which were downloaded when I did a clean
> build of one of my projects.
>
> All 100 artifacts were downloaded using HTTP/1.1 and also HTTP/2 and I
> stored the results in this file [3]. I did 10 experiments and measured its
> performance. In the middle I switch the order of HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2
> requests to avoid a possible bias. I run it from my laptop connected to 160
> Mbit/s network.
>
> The experiments showed massive performance improvements when using HTTP/2
> instead of HTTP/1.1
> *:*
>
>    - *The average download time using HTTP/1.1 was 3753.7 ms and using
>    HTTP/2 971.8 ms* [4]
>
>
>    - *In average the artifacts were downloaded 3.86 times faster using
>    HTTP/2 than using HTTP/1.1* [5]
>
>
> Kuba
>
> [1]:
> https://github.com/jbartece/http2performance/blob/main/http2PerfTest.py
> [2]:
> https://github.com/jbartece/http2performance/blob/main/centralUrls.txt
> [3]:
> https://github.com/jbartece/http2performance/blob/main/testResults.txt
> [4]:
> https://github.com/jbartece/http2performance/blob/main/finalResults.txt#L26
> [5]:
> https://github.com/jbartece/http2performance/blob/main/finalResults.txt#L32
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 8:42 AM Jakub Bartecek <jbart...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'll do some measurements and share the results with you. If it turns out
> > that it is worth the effort, how much work does it require? I'm
> considering
> > contributing it to Maven (or someone from my team).
> >
> > If it is contributed today, when can it be in an official Maven release?
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 7:09 PM Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Am 2020-10-26 um 15:01 schrieb Jakub Bartecek:
> >> > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 10:25 AM Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Am 2020-10-23 um 10:08 schrieb Jakub Bartecek:
> >> >>> Hello,
> >> >>> I'd like to ask if it is possible to turn on HTTP/2 support in
> Maven.
> >> I
> >> >>> haven't found such an option.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> If not: Are there any plans to add the support?
> >> >>
> >> >> There is nothing to turn on and that would be unwise, something like
> >> >> this should be done through ALPN.
> >> >>
> >> >> Maven uses by default Wagon HTTP Transport on top of Apache
> >> >> HttpComponents 4.5.x. Beginning with Apache HttpComponent 5.0 HTTP/2
> is
> >> >> supported. One would need to write a new (updated) HTTP Transport to
> >> >> move all gone.
> >> >> There is one crucial issue needs to be solved first: HTTPCORE-626.
> Also
> >> >> read the related discussion [1].
> >> >>
> >> >> Is there anything explicitly you expect from HTTP/2 compared to
> >> >> HTTP/1.1? I have done a lot of internal improvements to Wagon HTTP
> this
> >> >> year which covers a lot of use cases.
> >> >>
> >> >> Have you done testing with curl which proves some kind of
> improvement?
> >> >> I have talked about possible benefits of HTTP/2 in corporate
> >> >> environments with jfclere@ and he sees little benefit because when
> you
> >> >> have a repo manager in house, you have (a) a gigabit connection and
> (b)
> >> >> minimal hops between client and repo manager.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for the clarification.
> >> >
> >> > I wanted to test out if there are significant performance improvements
> >> with
> >> > HTTP/2 (which I hoped there could be),
> >> > but I haven't done any measurements by simulating it with curl. My
> first
> >> > idea was to try it with Maven directly
> >>
> >> Please do that first to have any numbers to compare. I don't see to put
> >> any effort into something which will deliver a single digit percent
> >> improvement given the amount of work.
> >>
> >> Share numbers when you are ready.
> >>
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