Yes performance does improve a great deal as the browsers pre-fetch in parallel. Its definitely a long overdue feature for browsers :) But it will still should be more efficient / faster to do one request instead of many in parallel. Even with parallel fetching the default in the Firefox nightlies its 5 scripts at a time. So you still end up doing a few round trips when you have a high script count.
--michael Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Michael Dale <md...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> ... I was looking at commons upload form JavaScript load profile is like >> a long waterfall or rather a steep river :( >> http://metavid.org/promo/round_trips.png >> > > Note that this should be dramatically improved in next-gen browsers > like Firefox 3.1, IE8, and whatever the next stable branch of WebKit > is. All of these three can now load scripts in parallel, last I > heard. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
