Honestly, one would think that the switch to a binary protocol and then to a different transport layer protocol would be justified by massive gains in performance...
I interpreted his comment as saying “where’s the 20% speed up” which seems like a more reasonable interpretation in context. A 20% speed up is actually quite substantial because that’s aggregate - it must mean there’s situations where it’s more as well as situations where it’s unchanged or worse (although unlikely to be worse under internet conditions).
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Honestly, one would think that the switch to a binary protocol and then to a different transport layer protocol would be justified by massive gains in performance...
It's definitely not a given that a binary protocol + etc. will yield a "massive gain in performance" versus naive e.g. gzipped JSON over HTTP.
The website being tested probably isn’t complicated enough to demonstrate that difference.
Even then, I remember the sales pitches all mentioning performance improvements in the order of about 10-20%
In real world conditions, not loop back synthetic benchmarks.
I believe his point is 10-20% gain is not massive.
FWIW I don't know if that is what was claimed.
20% is what real world data from Google suggested: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-speeds-up-the-web-with-...
I interpreted his comment as saying “where’s the 20% speed up” which seems like a more reasonable interpretation in context. A 20% speed up is actually quite substantial because that’s aggregate - it must mean there’s situations where it’s more as well as situations where it’s unchanged or worse (although unlikely to be worse under internet conditions).