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Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), the alternative to Transmission Control Protocol advanced as a fine way to speed up web traffic, struggles to deliver that outcome without considerable customisation.
So write Alexander Yu and Theophilus A. Benson of Brown University in a paper [PDF] titled Dissecting Performance of Production QUIC . The paper was presented in April 2021, and on Monday a summary yesterday reached the blog of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) – the regional internet address registry for the Asia-Pacific.
The paper explains that QUIC was designed to speed up the web (which is one reason it recently became an IETF standard) but asserts that most tests of the protocol have only used unoptimized open-source QUIC servers on non-tuned kernels . The authors deem the resulting analyses unrepresentative of production deployments which raises the question of whether QUIC actually outperforms TCP in practice because many big QUIC users employ
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