On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 11:55:11AM -0500, James LewisMoss wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 19:25:03 +0000 (GMT), "Al B. Snell"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Al> I would suggest making good use of RPC over UDP - the connection
> Al> should start off with UDP, and only make TCP connections when
> Al> "transactions" are being performed. UDP will be fine for reading
> Al> data, since if a packet gets lost, a retransmit will have no
> Al> idempotency problems... TCP will implement the retransmit in a
> Al> much bulkier way. RPC over UDP is as fast as an Internet protocol
> Al> can *ever* get.
>
> OK. So the question I have is "So what?" HTTP is slower than a UDP
> protocol because it's TCP (that's the basic gist of this right?). So
> what? Is it too slow for our uses? No one knows because it hasn't
> been tested. My bet: nope not anywhere near too slow.
>
> Now. What's simpler? What is more easily understandable? What's
> more universal? Those are the questions that seem more important to
> me.
I think James is right here. While there may be a slight difference in
speed, it is unlikely to be very significant. Robustness and
simplicity seem more important than raw speed to me.
Of course, I know little of what you are talking about, so I can't
debate the fine points of one approach over another as you are. It
just seems you are so focused on the speed issue you aren't
considering other factors.
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