• From: Vassilis Papadimos <vpapad@c...>
• To: Al Snell <alaric@a...>
• Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:49:05 -0700

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:40:34AM +0100, Al Snell wrote:

> > conversely, I found XML-RPC to be about 3x slower than binary RPC.
> 
> A lot of that might be HTTP overhead :-)
> 
> Three-way handshake before you even send the request, the
> connection teardown? *retch*!

The three-way handshake is part of any TCP-based protocol, right?
Plus, with HTTP versions > 1.1, you can amortize the connection
overhead over multiple connections.

Are there any reasonable alternatives?


Regards,

Vassilis.

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