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paulsuttertoday at 4:02 AM1 replyview on HN

False. It really was just intended to coalesce packets.

I’ll be nice and not attack the feature. But making that the default is one of the biggest mistakes in the history of networking (second only to TCP’s boneheaded congestion control that was designed imagining 56kbit links)


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aleph_minus_onetoday at 1:19 PM

> (second only to TCP’s boneheaded congestion control that was designed imagining 56kbit links)

What would you change here?