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Re: SFTP might get faster soon

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:56:26 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 19 Dec 2010, Mark Wick wrote:

> Will performance enhancements be reflected automatically in libcurl's use of
> libssh2 or will there need to be some work done in libcurl to take advantage
> of these changes?

It's not quite decided yet in the libssh2 project.

I would say that a likely outcome is that existing libcurl versions will do
speedier SFTP transfers unmodified with a newer libssh2 (especially
downloads), but to make the transfer speeds really get a bump we will need to
adapt the code somewhat.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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