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Curl 8 Is Faster
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business supporting it, while Curl I believe has not. Curl's founder works for a small American company called WolfSSL. AFAIK he works on Curl-related stuff full time.
A database is also an artifact that requires maintenance, unlike curl.
Maybe read what SQLite is first
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#23> Raw unencrypted HTTP/1 Please don't do this! Other than that, the numbers look great.
Yes, I'm sure our static public images transferred from static web server to caching proxy need that extra protection /s
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
> SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business supporting it, while Curl I believe has not. Curl's founder works for a small American company called WolfSSL. AFAIK he works on Curl-related stuff full time.
A database is also an artifact that requires maintenance, unlike curl.
HTTP regularly changes. 2 and 3 are very big enhancements for some use cases.
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#26It's interesting to compare the revenue model of Curl to SQLite. Both are permissively licensed. Both are embedded in billions of offerings. Both launched around the same time. SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business supporting it, while Curl I believe has not.
> SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business ...
Interesting, where'd you hear that? :)
Haven't heard figures regarding SQLite's business side of things (yet), and doing some online searching isn't turning up anything useful.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't realize curb was still maintained. Would be helpful to report the issue here: https://github.com/taf2/curb/issues
Yeah, I was/am planning to do that. But... the project giving us trouble is still on 0.9.11 and another project that is on latest doesn't seem to be having the same issue, so some more testing is needed. At the moment, we're going to rebuild using the older base image and then we'll upgrade the gem and test this sprint.
Update: Latest gem still has the elevated error rates from the service we're connecting to but NOT the resource leak.
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#28It's interesting to compare the revenue model of Curl to SQLite. Both are permissively licensed. Both are embedded in billions of offerings. Both launched around the same time. SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business supporting it, while Curl I believe has not.
> SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business ... Interesting, where'd you hear that? :) Haven't heard figures regarding SQLite's business side of things (yet), and doing some online searching isn't turning up anything useful.
The SQLite Consortium clearly has enough employees and importance that that's a fair estimate. You could talk to them about joining the consortium and see if you can manage to get a quote, then extrapolate from that, but really, the members are deep pocket types who are utterly dependent on SQLite3 and who want improvements (not just support).
Re: Curl 8 Is Faster
#29It's interesting to compare the revenue model of Curl to SQLite. Both are permissively licensed. Both are embedded in billions of offerings. Both launched around the same time. SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business supporting it, while Curl I believe has not.
> SQLite has built a multi-million dollar annual business ... Interesting, where'd you hear that? :) Haven't heard figures regarding SQLite's business side of things (yet), and doing some online searching isn't turning up anything useful.
Your challenge piqued my curiosity. ;)
SQLite sells support, licensing, and services using a small staff of engineers. See https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html The premium support contract is $120k/year, and it appears from the website that they have at least 4 such clients. See https://www.sqlite.org/index.html#consortium_members But even if those are all past clients, all things considered--support tiers, US domestic engineering staff, etc--it seems likely their annual revenue is at least $500K, and would not be surprising if more than $2M.
It would be interesting to hear concrete sources, though.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean for testing, or in general?
I would rather use the same protocol for testing that I use for higher environments, unless there is a strong reason not to. Same reason I wouldn't use SQlite locally and postgres in staging / prod.
Daniel has no "prod" or "testing" environments. Not every dogma needs to be applied for everything, everywhere.