[opensource-dev] before opena Jira, APR

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

  On 2010-09-01 9:46, Francesco Rabbi wrote:
>
> No, this is a client side problem in file handling, not an HTTP 
> problem... You can parallelize billions of download,
Whether or not you _can_, you _shouldn't_.  The HTTP spec is quite clear 
on this point.

We'd get much better performance than we're getting now if we fixed the 
servers to support persistent connections; there's a lot of overhead in 
setting up a new connection - extra round trips plus TCP slow-start.