distributed computing implementations

[Duncan Grisby]

In article <71M$aHCTKxl+Ew8l at jessikat.demon.co.uk>,
 Robin Becker  <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

>sigh :(
>for real distributed computing I wouldn't want to hold the sockets open.

Why ever not!?  Most protocols people use for distributed computing do
hold sockets open. As long as connections are seen as a cache, and can
be closed if necessary, it's a good thing. TCP start-up overhead is
huge, especially if the network has high latency.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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