Re: Proposal: splitting the network package

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Conrad Parker wrote:

c'mon, it's not like anyone needs to go parsing billions of URIs in a hurry.

This is not even a bit true, I'm afraid. I have run into innumerable cases where libraries low in some language's stack, but on a hot code path, were slow enough to dramatically affect both latency and throughput. The URI handling code in network would be a prime instance of that.