[sword-devel] New Project Idea: MozSword

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> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 porton@narod.ru wrote:
> 
> > _Diatheke is slow_ (especially because of using it with slow web servers). 
> > Consider my future Sword Server (It will serve through TCP). (I have hope to 
> > make the fist release inside two weeks...)
> 
> I'm not sure where you're coming from with this. Perhaps you're expecting 
> something other than what is actually happening or you're unclear on what 
> portions of the retrieval take the longest time.

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> The majority of time spent on a request is and always will be due to 
> network latency.  And you can't fix that.

Some guys (including me) use diatheke locally (run web server and browser on the same PC). In this case a slow web server (Apache is) causes more delay than the browser. So throwing away web server from the system would increase speed several times!
-- 
Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com)