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		sethev on March 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in... If 60 bytes per request is a material overhead, then your workload is unlikely to benefit from general purpose compression of any kind.

pornel on March 6, 2024 [–]

Upload is usually slower, more latency sensitive, and suffers from tcp cold start. Pages also make lots of small requests, so header overhead can add up. HTTP/2 added header compression for these reasons.

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