On Thu Nov 20 13:44:04 EST 2014, a...@9srv.net wrote: > Both. I agree with what you're saying about the computers, but I was thinking > of the fact that the wire speed is fast enough in most cases that the tcp/ip > overhead doesn't impact things noticeably for most uses. There are outliers > in both cases, of course.
this is not correct. tcp doesn't help at all when the wire is fast (short, fat). it's the classic tradeoff of cpu for (networking) performance. the wire being fast enough is an argument against using tcp, not for it. so really, it's the gobs of cpu we currently have that make tcp not an issue, not the gobs of bandwidth. - erik
