Kevin's Weblog

I’m feeling like maybe I’m being a little slow, but I wish I could figure out what the lesson is that Tim Bray wants us to take away from his recent post about Latency. Is is that context switches are slow, so running a client and server on the same CPU is a bad idea? Is it that Apple’s network layer is slow? Is it that Apple’s JVM is slow? Is it that Apple’s hardware is slow? Is it something about TCP/IP?

I’m leaning towards the first, but I kinda wish he’d just come out and tell us what it’s actually instructive of.