Re:Never* Use Datagrams
by Aurornis on Sunday June 23, 2024 @10:31AM
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> I feel so stupid for never noticing that pretty much everything done on TCP is actually message exchange, not streams.
This generalization isn’t true at all. Streaming data over TCP is extremely common in many applications.
When you download a large file, you’re streaming it to disk, for example.
I guess you could get pedantic and argue that an entire stream of something is actually one large message, but that’s really straining the definitions.
This generalization isn’t true at all. Streaming data over TCP is extremely common in many applications.
When you download a large file, you’re streaming it to disk, for example.
I guess you could get pedantic and argue that an entire stream of something is actually one large message, but that’s really straining the definitions.