Re: Sv: Emacs HTTP libraries [was: Re: How to contribute new package to GNU ELPA?]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: arthur.miller@live.com,  mardani29@yahoo.es,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,
>   db48x@db48x.net,  darnir@gnu.org,  adam@alphapapa.net,  raman@google.com,
>   jemarch@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:34:38 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > On fencepost.gnu.org, which AFAIU is on the same LAN as ftp.gnu.org,
> > Emacs got that in 2.3 sec while wget took 1.7 sec.  Is this what is
> > considered "slow"?
> 
> Yup.  If I remember correctly, my experiments showed that Emacs uses 2x
> as much time to download a file from localhost than wget

Is fetching from localhost an interesting use case for URL retrieval?