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by sajal83 4481 days ago
> The improvements of using HTTP pipelining can be quite dramatic over high-latency connections – which is what you have when your iPhone is not on Wi-Fi. In fact, there’s been some research that suggests that there’s no additional performance benefit to using SPDY over HTTP pipelining on mobile networks

Excellent summary but i think pipeline has been oversimplified. HTTP pipelining is a FIFO queue. The responses have to be delivered in the same order as the requests. So if the first(or an early) response took longer to generate, all other requests in the pipeline have to wait. Something that SPDY is not susceptible to.