On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Robert Iakobashvili wrote:

> This is not the case. Dealing with some great people with a profound
> knowledge of assemblers C/C++ as well as java at the server side.

Just my conclusion when you compared Java with C/C++ instead of libcurl.

> Could it be the the great people of Sun and IBM have optimized so good
> HTTP and TLS/SSL stacks in JDK?

I have no knowledge at all about that. Would surprise/impress me if that was
the case.

I assume the HTTP part is quite small to be optimized. But if any part is
only one cycle faster then it's just a matter of iterate it enough to win the
competition... :-)

  // Kjell
Received on 2007-07-24