Varnish use for purely binary files

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <364F5E3E-0D1E-4C95-B101-B7A00C276435 at slide.com>, Ken Brownfield wri
tes:

>A cache hit under Varnish will be comparable in latency to a
>dedicated static server hit, regardless of the backend.

Only provided the "dedicated static server" is written to work in
a modern SMP/VM system, which few, if any, of them are.

Poul-Henning

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