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Default Re: United Bot philosophy and roadmap. - 31-03-2004

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Originally Posted by Pierre-Marie Baty
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Not over a network... over the loopback interface
You always have a lot of overhead if you use a general purpose network stack to transfer data, especially with TCP/IP. It doesn't matter which interface you use! All your data will be wrapped into packets which need headers and checksums. And there is not only one header with TCP/IP, there are at least two of them, one for IP and one for TCP/UDP. And both require checksums which need to be calculated. That's one of the reasons why you never get the expected bandwidth that you expect when you transfer data using TCP/IP. Modern server clusters e.g. use specialized network hardware and stacks which are optimized for speed and bandwidth and only need minimal overhead. But I doubt that UT supports that .
  
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