From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:10:08 +0200 (IST)
> >
> > BTW, TCP will be significantly faster than UDP because with UDP you
> > incur an extra full context switch on every packet.
> >
>
> Could you elaborate on this a bit more? What kind of context switch?
TCP queues and takes care of all the sending, packetization,
etc. handling asynchronously. Whereas with UDP every write()
results in a packet on the wire, packets are always emitted
synchronously in process context.
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