Re: COSS stuff

From: <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 02:00:19 +0800

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000, Eric Stern wrote:

> > philosophy which currently limits its top speed. Its my hope to keep
> > pushing forward enough with my fs/network code modifications (including
> > kernel stuff) until some other interested parties take it over, so
> > I can work on other cache related stuff.
>
> Really? I don't see anything in the squid design that I would say limits its
> top speed. I have a feeling the speed issues just have to do with code
> optimization. There are probably some core routines that are alot slower
> than they could be. (My gut tells me the HTTP header routines are probably
> terribly slow/inefficient, but thats just a feeling, I haven't actually
> looked yet.)

Well, the IO code could be overhauled in a huge way, it'd be nice to reduce
the number of copies (esp in the fs/net layers..), I'm sure we could
kill the 'defer' code .. but one thing at a time. :)

Adrian
Received on Tue Feb 15 2000 - 23:02:47 MST

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