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are you sending the same data to 50 million people? I don't see you doing much computing for 50 mIllino clients even on great hardware.


This might be the sort of thing that is hard to imagine using before it's available, but it gets used eventually anyway...


I could see this relatively obvious to use for a static proxy like varnish or maybe squid. Static html doesn't require much processing and this seems workable given the right hardware / software stack.


There are many use cases for having lots of connections open that aren't doing much: chat apps, IoT, pub/sub busses, etc.




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