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Re:TeleHash: Distributed JSON Peering Protocol by tlack on Thursday May 20, 2010 @02:18AM (#1363372)
There's a reason most of the world uses TCP.. even for things that sound ideal for UDP.
Re:TeleHash: Distributed JSON Peering Protocol by agentultra on Thursday May 20, 2010 @08:32AM (#1363845)
When you've got a hammer...

TCP isn't ideal for everything. Ad-hoc networking and broadcast streaming being just two.

There's a reason why UDP was invented.

Re:TeleHash: Distributed JSON Peering Protocol by jrockway on Thursday May 20, 2010 @10:50AM (#1364152)
There's a reason why UDP was invented.

And that reason was not sending time-insensitive text messages.