> On 28.01.2019, at 01:39, Chris Muller <ma.chris.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> By "the image" I assume you mean the SqueakSource server image.  But
> opening the file takes very little time.  Original web-sites were
> .html files, remember how fast those were?  Plus, filesystems "cache"
> file contents into their own internal caches anyway...
> 
> Yes, it still has to return back through alan but I assume alan does
> not wait for a "full download" received from andreas before its
> already pipeing back to the Squeak client.  If true, then it seems
> like it only amounts to saving one hop, which would hardly be
> noticeable over what we have now.


No, the difference is actually orders of magnitude.
Believe us. W.r.t. file handling nginx is blazing fast and squeak a snail.
-t