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> * String headers > * round trips > * many sockets, there is additional overhead to socket creation, especially over TLS > * UDP. Yes, in theory UDP is faster than TCP but only when you completely abandon integrity.

Have you ever read up on the technical details of QUIC? Every single of one of your bullets reflects a misunderstanding of QUIC's design.



Honestly the entire comment is a head scratcher, from comparing QUIC to HTTP (different layers of the stack) or suggesting that string headers are a performance bottleneck.

Websockets are useful in some cases where you need to upgrade an HTTP connection to something more. Some people learn about websockets and then try to apply them to everything, everywhere. This seems to be one of those cases.




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