This ia a fantastic quantitative analysis of Chrome’s network performance. The author is very good at explaining the tradeoffs involved with the improvements (and hacks) that the team implemented.
Originally shared by Ilya Grigorik
Every millisecond counts… and Chrome tries to leverage every opportunity to reduce the latency overhead to improve your web browsing performance!
Great writeup by William Chan.
https://insouciant.org/tech/connection-management-in-chromium/