You can check with Google Chrome and/or IE10 to see whether it is not something in Firefox
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Michael Roberts <m...@7f.com> wrote: > This was using .35 with the default connector (just a generic tomcat > install using the installer, on windows 7 64bit) from current firefox. I > can't tell you the exact time difference currently, but I can say that if I > chain the calling of the REST API off the end off the completion of the > WebSocket's sendMessage, the REST API call will consistently beat the web > socket to the end point. Which (I think) means that either it's latency in > moz's web socket implementation, or it's at the server end. > > I will make a test case which does exact timing and is separated from our > application and report back on what I find. > > MR > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 29/01/2013 20:04, Michael Roberts wrote: > > > I'm seeing some differences in the latency of making a post request via > > > jQuery versus sending a websockets message. It maybe that this is > > overhead > > > in my application caused by processing the json I am sending in the > > > message, but I find this hard to believe. I imagined that web socket > > > connection should be faster than REST due to it not creating and > > destroying > > > the socket, however this does not seem to be the case. Is there a > reason > > > why websockets should be slower? > > > > > > I thing I can code up a small test case to illustrate this if this is > > > something people are interested in .. > > > > Tomcat version? > > Connector? > > How much difference? > > > > REST can (and should for performance) use HTTP keep-alive. > > > > There is some overhead in upgrading an HTTP connection to use WebSocket > > so for a single request I'd expect the REST request to be faster. Once > > both connections are established, WebSocket should be faster (note that > > binary messages will be faster than text ones). > > > > If you have a test case that demonstrates this with established > > connections I'd certainly be interested. > > > > Mark > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > > > -- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com <http://jweekend.com/>
