Re: [Bug-wget] GSoC15: Speed up Wget's Download Mechanism

[Tim Ruehsen]

On Thursday 30 April 2015 17:01:03 Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Gisle Vanem wrote:
> > Hard to tell since I didn't find any large files I could D/L via SSL. You
> 
> > have one? But some quick tests (only a 48 kByte file):
> Here's a HTTPS URL that gives you a 40651008 bytes Firefox installation:
> 
> https://download-installer.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/37.0.2/win32
> /en-GB/Firefox%20Setup%2037.0.2.exe
> 
> ... but I would guess that the faster the network/RTT gets, the bigger diff
> you'll see so if you'd run a local test server and download a 1GB file or
> something I figure the speed difference will scale up somewhat.

Originally, Gisle talked about CPU cycles, not elapsed time.
That is quite a difference...

Tim

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