Pipelining in Safari (Calling All Programers)

jdbonjdbon
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Though Safari is fast, it is not as fast as Chimera with Pipelining enabled. We have the source to Safari (webcore): <a href="http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/"; target="_blank">http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/</a>;



so is it possible to add pipelining?

I did a search on khtml and konqueror and I do not believe it has pipelining (though it can pipeline POP3 e-mail requests). So is there a way (calling all programmers) to add pipelining for html. I would be very curious to see how fast Safari could be with pipelining.

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    jlljll Posts: 2,713member
    [quote]Originally posted by jdbon:

    <strong>Though Safari is fast, it is not as fast as Chimera with Pipelining enabled. We have the source to Safari (webcore): <a href="http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/"; target="_blank">http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/</a></strong><hr></blockquote>;



    That's the source to the rendering engine - not Safari.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    akacakac Posts: 512member
    I believe its been shown that pipelining is a *bad* thing because it can kill webservers needlessly. Safari uses the correct approach - and so does Chimera. Chimera does NOT have pipelining on by default and only through a pref does it allow it.



    But even there, the Chimera developers say its not necessarily a good thing.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    baumanbauman Posts: 1,248member
    I've heard a lot about pipelining recently... What is it and how does it work?
  • Reply 4 of 5
    cosmocosmo Posts: 662member
    [quote]Originally posted by bauman:

    <strong>I've heard a lot about pipelining recently... What is it and how does it work?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    pipelining basically sends multiple requests to the webserver instead of sending requests one at a time.

    This speeds things up when servers limit the speeds of each request/download and if you have a fast connection.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    [quote]Originally posted by Akac:

    <strong>I believe its been shown that pipelining is a *bad* thing because it can kill webservers needlessly.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Not if the web servers behave properly. Pipelining is a defined feature of HTTP 1.1, which is already a few years old. Just because some web server products from *cough* M$ *cough* and others can't handle pipelining right doesn't mean it's a bad idea in general.



    By adding Pipelining to more browsers (at least as an option), some companies hopefully will realize they should switch to Apache.
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