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http://www.stuartcheshire.org/papers/NagleDelayedAck/

If you have never been bitten by Naggle’s algorithm and Delayed ACKs then you probably have never written latency-sensitive low-level networking code. A good explanation of how two good ideas on their own can lead to subpar performance when combined.