On Fri Mar 20 07:40:30 EDT 2009, [email protected] wrote:
> If connection is slow (as the one I'm using now) increasing the
> abstraction level is a good thing to do. Merging low level input
> streams may patch up things for a while, but won't be enough
> if the connection is slower.
i think it does solve the originally stated problem — keeping input
streams in sync, which is a problem for a local viewer if any input-handling
proc does potentially-blocking i/o.
john carmack mentioned this way back when:
http://9fans.net/archive/1995/11/123
i suppose thinking of this as a real-time problem could make sense,
but simply keeping order would seem to me to be a useful subset of the whole
problem.
- erik
