18 Jan
2013
18 Jan
'13
12:50 a.m.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Conrad Parker <conrad@metadecks.org> 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.