On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Baruch Even wrote: > While this is true on the surface, it's worth being aware to your > underlying network special idiosyncrasies. There is a lot more packet > loss than usual and round trips are longer. Design the protocol to > reduce the problems that can be incurred due to these issues. Pipeline > your requests and don't use a stop-and-wait method unless required. > This will reduce the overall time it takes for your app to achieve its > goals. If you are using a standard protocol find where you can > pipeline in it while following the spec. There are probably other > things you'll find along the way, the above is just what I could come > up with on the fly.
This is true for any medium, wired, wireless or etheric - be aware of the medium's behaviour and change the app/protocol to work around the medium's weaknesses. Marc Volovic marcvolo...@me.com _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
