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Date: Mon,  3 May 2010 13:22:30 -0700
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Distributed Pipelines
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:10 AM, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it mean IL has performance issue on long-distance networks?
>
> As I understand it, the real problem is that Internet
> doesn't handle IL well.

They are both problems.  Routing issues aside,
IL is particularly bad on asymmetric networks like
cable modems (download much faster than upload).

Russ