On Saturday, 10 June 2023 at 21:58:12 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
On Friday, 9 June 2023 at 15:07:54 UTC, Murloc wrote:
On Friday, 9 June 2023 at 12:56:20 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
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Is this some kind of property? Where can I read more about
this?
My last example is comms. Protocol headers need economical narrow
data types because of efficiency, it’s all about packing as much
user data as possible into each packet and fatter, longer headers
reduce the amount of user data as the total has a hard limit on
it. A pair of headers totalling 40 bytes in IPv4+TCP takes up
nearly 3% of the total length allowed, so that’s a ~3% speed
loss, as the headers are just dead weight. So here narrow types
help comms speed.
