client-server

[Al Snell]

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 linas@linas.org wrote:

> It's been rumoured that Derek Atkins said:
> > 
> > This is an interesting approach, but HTTP is _SLOW_.  You have to
> 
> ahh, what are you envisioning? a thousand hits a second?
> www.linas.org serves up 20K pages a day, and serves up
> cvs.gnucash.org, and its a 7 year old 486 whose load average 
> stays under 0.1  (and uptime would be years, if our power company
> were reliable...)

You're missing the point - HTTP is slow! It doesn't load the server, it's
just slow!

ABS

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