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by brokenparser 4498 days ago
That's not true, your browser still handles caching just fine. More bandwidth trumps caching anyway, and caching forward proxies will be a thing of the past.
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Heh, bandwidth can help, but caching helps primarily with latency.
The latency benefits of an extra caching layer are minimal, especially since HTTP pipelining and CDNs will continue to exist.