>The primary point he makes is that the design of many HTML documents is such
>that they do not benefit from the Van Jacobsen Slow Start
>performance-enhancement procedures.  Van Jacobsen Slow Start is beneficial
>to the transmission of large files (not to the transmission of many small
>files that are typical of most HTTP sessions -- text with several small
>graphics).
 
There is a new HTTP specification, HTTP-ng, which addresses these problems.
There is a fascinating analysis of performance problems with the current
HTTP-1.0 specification, and how HTTP-ng will solve them. You can find the
proposed specification at
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP-NG/Overview.html
 
-Dan
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