Comment by Terretta
16 hours ago
Speed:
74ms
241ms
… LOL …
These 30 ms and 4 ms numbers were typical Apache to Netscape from MAE East and MAE West in 1998. Twenty five years and orders of magnitude more computing later? Same numbers.
16 hours ago
Speed:
74ms
241ms
… LOL …
These 30 ms and 4 ms numbers were typical Apache to Netscape from MAE East and MAE West in 1998. Twenty five years and orders of magnitude more computing later? Same numbers.
But now it's that fast from almost everywhere on the planet, with nearly zero effort from the developer. We've been limited by light speed here, not compute.
I get 381ms/401ms on first load and not the claimed ~30ms. I'm not really sure what the point is here though. CDNs and browser cache headers work? Static sites are fast to paint?
Yeah, I'm not seeing fast uncached times either. I usually hit Cloudflare's Miami datacenter, which is only about 200 miles and very low latency. But I'm seeing 200+ms on this site right now.
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I also got initial load times in that range.
The site should be faster, though. I’ve had a small CF workers project that works correctly with quick load times.
The circumference of Earth at the equator is about 40,000 km and the speed of light is about 300,000 km/s. The appropriate division results in about 0.13 s.
That seems to track. The vast majority of requests won’t go half way around the Earth, so maybe halving that time at 0.06 seems like a reasonable target.
Light travels at about 0.69c in fiber optic cables (c being the speed of light in vacuum, which, as you stated, is about 300,000 km/s).
Not to mention that device count went up million fold.
Great point!
nah, most sites are fat enough that both bandwidth and compute is the limit.
Getting it closer can save you 50-150ms, but if whole load takes 1s+ that's minuscule
I only meant in this example. I agree, sites in general are fat.
I know, right? Almost 30 years and no progress in the speed of light? What are all these engineers even doing?
I believe that FTL communication (if it's achievable) will start out in data centers at small scales. Perhaps millimeters.
Possibly as an extension of Quantum Computing where some probabilistic asymmetry can be taken advantage of. The QC itself might not be faster than classical computing, but the FTL comms could improve memory and cache access.
Also MetaGoog will use it to serve up hyper personalized ads in their Gemini based Metaverse.
Right right! Like we used to have concord back in the day and we are just getting slower innit.
For real
Speed: 350ms 1330ms
Is the site getting slower?
Physics. It's literally just physics.
And with Workers they're accessible from hundreds of locations around the world so you can get this sort of speed from almost anywhere.