Lightwight socket IO wrapper
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Sun Sep 20 21:55:14 EDT 2015
On 21Sep2015 10:34, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>If you're going to add sequencing and acknowledgements to UDP,
>wouldn't it be easier to use TCP and simply prefix every message with
>a two-byte length?
Frankly, often yes. That's what I do. (different length encoding, but
otherwise...)
UDP's neat if you do not care if a packet fails to arrive and if you can
guarentee that your data fits in a packet in the face of different MTUs.
I like TCP myself, most of the time. Another nice thing about TCP is that wil a
little effort you get to pack multiple data packets (or partial data packets)
into a network packet, etc.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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