Closed Bug 725423 Opened 13 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Stop assuming cache is faster than network.

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cache, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: Cache
Platform:
x86
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 715714

People

(Reporter: taras.mozilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

We should do network+cache requests in parallel to avoid worst-case disk cache latencies. We can start by doing a network request 100ms after the cache request. Bug 715714 is related to this.
You do realise that'll completely screw everyone who doesn't live within 100ms (practically, much less) of the servers (i.e., most of the world)?
Note that we just landed bug 729133 which does HTTP preconnect (but not full simultaneous cache/net request). I assume that doesn't screw over most of the world... If we want to pursue this bug further I'd suspect we'd want to base it on metrics from the user's browser: i.e. only turn this on if cached requests seem to be taking longer than network ones, perhaps on a per-domain basis.
See Also: → 715714
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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