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On 4 Mar 2011, at 11:07, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:<BR>
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> In message <FC1F5965-7DAC-4D30-8A4E-33B81E917C9B@lovefilm.com>, Steve Webster w<BR>
> rites:<BR>
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>> I know there has been a lot of work on ESIs for Varnish 3, but as far as I <BR>
>> can tell they are still processed serially. Are there any plans to switch to<BR>
>> a parallel processing model? If not, might this be a worthy feature request<BR>
>> for a future version of Varnish?s<BR>
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> I wouldn't call them "plans", but it is on our wish-list.<BR>
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This is good news.<BR>
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> It is not simple though, so don't hold your breath.<BR>
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Indeed. I had one of those "how hard could this be" moments and started trying to implement it myself, then realised I had opened a can of worms and decided to leave Varnish hacking to the experts.<BR>
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I have a workaround for now – a custom Apache output filter that uses LWP::Parallel – so thankfully breathe-holding isn't necessary.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
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Steve<BR>
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Steve Webster<BR>
Web Architect<BR>
LOVEFiLM<BR>
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