[JDEV] UDP vs TCP

[Kurt D. Starsinic]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:19:35PM -0500, mark at mjwilcox.com wrote:
> TCP can scale very well, thank you very much. In particular once 
> we start using select and asynch IO on the socket level (which I 
> think jabberd, the next version of Jabber does & it's coming out 
> soon), this will enable a single server to handle an enormous 
> amount of connections.
> 
> If that's not enough, jabberd will be able to be server farmed.
> 
> UDP gets its performance boost because it doesn't care if its 
> packets get there or not.

    This is quite an oversimplification.  If you don't know how a TCP
stack works, you'd best not spread such inaccuracies.

    Peace,
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