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On 25 Aug 2011, at 17:45, Greg Ames wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jim Jagielski <jim@jagunet.com> =
wrote:
> Now that the memory utilz is being fixed, we need to determine
> what sort of usage we want to allow=85 I'm guessing that people
> are ok with http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/311
> as the guiding spec?
>=20
> I'm no longer convinced that we *need* to merge/optimize the Range =
header.  Stefan's fix to the brigade plumbing has converted O(N^2) =
memory + CPU use into something scalable. =20

Same feeling here. BUT that is based on the FreeBSD platform I care =
about. And we have noticed earlier that Ubuntu (which its default commit =
pattern in the vm) behaves very differently.=20

So is it fair to assume this reasoning holds across the board -- or =
should we get some very explicit +1's on this appraoch from key linux, =
windows and what not users ?

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