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    Enable HTTP/2 support · 90ad02bf
    Eelco Dolstra authored
    The binary cache store can now use HTTP/2 to do lookups. This is much
    more efficient than HTTP/1.1 due to multiplexing: we can issue many
    requests in parallel over a single TCP connection. Thus it's no longer
    necessary to use a bunch of concurrent TCP connections (25 by
    default).
    
    For example, downloading 802 .narinfo files from
    https://cache.nixos.org/, using a single TCP connection, takes 11.8s
    with HTTP/1.1, but only 0.61s with HTTP/2.
    
    This did require a fairly substantial rewrite of the Downloader class
    to use the curl multi interface, because otherwise curl wouldn't be
    able to do multiplexing for us. As a bonus, we get connection reuse
    even with HTTP/1.1. All downloads are now handled by a single worker
    thread. Clients call Downloader::enqueueDownload() to tell the worker
    thread to start the download, getting a std::future to the result.
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    Enable HTTP/2 support
    Eelco Dolstra authored
    The binary cache store can now use HTTP/2 to do lookups. This is much
    more efficient than HTTP/1.1 due to multiplexing: we can issue many
    requests in parallel over a single TCP connection. Thus it's no longer
    necessary to use a bunch of concurrent TCP connections (25 by
    default).
    
    For example, downloading 802 .narinfo files from
    https://cache.nixos.org/, using a single TCP connection, takes 11.8s
    with HTTP/1.1, but only 0.61s with HTTP/2.
    
    This did require a fairly substantial rewrite of the Downloader class
    to use the curl multi interface, because otherwise curl wouldn't be
    able to do multiplexing for us. As a bonus, we get connection reuse
    even with HTTP/1.1. All downloads are now handled by a single worker
    thread. Clients call Downloader::enqueueDownload() to tell the worker
    thread to start the download, getting a std::future to the result.