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3rd December 2010 - Link Blog

Google and Microsoft Cheat on Slow-Start. Should You? Fascinating optimisation tricks by some of the big websites, which violate the RFC governing the TCP slow-start algorithm in order to perform better in the common case.

Posted 3rd December 2010 at 7:03 pm

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