This is a very interesting article, as I'd heard references to SPDY before, but didn't know what it was.<p>However, I am bothered by the fact that this is a piece on performance yet it contains no hard data. Without quantifying the scale of the improvement, I have no idea if this is a 2% optimization, or a 15% one.<p>Also, does it matter if only one side of a connection has slow start enabled? IE, does it require symmetrical SPDY, or would I see improvements on my server and desktop if I made this change?<p>(Side note: the requirement for performance data is analogous to ROI data in business.)
For more info, checkout this blog post (not me):
<a href="http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat-on-slow.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.benstrong.com/2010/11/google-and-microsoft-cheat...</a>