alt Hacker News Speed:
74ms
241ms
These 30 ms and 4 ms numbers were typical Apache to Netscape from MAE East and MAE West in 1998. Twenty five years and orders of magnitude more computing later? Same numbers.
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usrnm • today at 1:22 PM
I know, right? Almost 30 years and no progress in the speed of light? What are all these engineers even doing?
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neogodless • today at 3:28 PM
Speed: 350ms 1330ms
Is the site getting slower?
weird-eye-issue • today at 2:27 PM
Physics. It's literally just physics.
And with Workers they're accessible from hundreds of locations around the world so you can get this sort of speed from almost anywhere.
But now it's that fast from almost everywhere on the planet, with nearly zero effort from the developer. We've been limited by light speed here, not compute.