High Performance Networking in C

Talking about Google Chrome

• Works on a multi-process model providing process and memory isolation, and a tight security sandbox for each tab
• Execution of a web program primarily involves three tasks:
  • Fetching resources
  • Page layout and rendering: Blink
  • JavaScript (a single-threaded language) execution: V8 JavaScript runtime

The Life of a Resource request on the Wire

Navigation Timing

• TCP: TCP handshake SYN > SYN-ACK > ACK -> (If is HTTPS) SSL handshake

The Lifetime of Your Browser Session

• Optimizing the Cold-boot Experience
  • DNS prefetch chrome://dns
• Optimizing Interactions with the Omnibox
  • chrome://predictors
• Optimizing Cache Performance
  *chrome://net-internals/#httpCache
  • chrome://cache
• Optimizing DNS with Prefetching
  • A list of hostnames for all the links on the current page
  • a mouse hover or "button down" event as an early signal of a user's intent to perform a navigation
  • The Omnibox: a resolve rquest based on a high likelihood suggestion
  • The Predictor: request hostname resolution based on past navigation and resource request data
  • The owner of the page: explicitly indicate to Chrome which hostnames it should pre-resolve
  • chrome://histograms/DNS
• Optimizing TCP Connection management with Pre-connect
• Optimizing Resource Loading with Prefetch Hints
  • <link rel="subresource" href="..." /> : indicating the resource to be used in current page and will be prefetched with high priority
  • <link rel="prefetch" href="..." /> : indicating the resource to be used cross page and will be prefetched with low priority. * Is in HTML5 spec*
• Optimizing Resource Loading with Browser Refreshing
• Optimizing Navigation with Prerendering