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QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet

(arxiv.org)
306 points carlos-menezes | 1 comments | 19 Oct 24 21:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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Tempest1981 ◴[19 Oct 24 21:59 UTC] No.41891085[source]▶
From September:

QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet (acm.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484991 (327 comments)

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lysace ◴[19 Oct 24 22:01 UTC] No.41891107[source]▶
My personal takeaway from that: Perhaps we shouldn't let Google design and more or less unilaterally dictate and enforce internet protocol usage via Chromium.

Brave/Vivaldi/Opera/etc: You should make a conscious choice.

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1. GuB-42 ◴[19 Oct 24 22:43 UTC] No.41891355[source]▶
Maybe, but QUIC is not bad as a protocol. The problem here is that OSes are not as well optimized for QUIC as they are for TCP. Just give it time, the paper even has suggestions.

QUIC has some debatable properties, like mandatory encryption, or the use of UDP instead of being a protocol under IP like TCP, but there are good reasons for it, related to ossification.

Yes, Google pushed for it, but I think it deserves its approval as a standard. It is not perfect but it is practical, they don't want another IPv6 situation.