[Twisted-Python] UDP vs TCP for bittorrent-style file transfer

Z. S. O. tiredashell at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 21:33:43 EDT 2008


>
> For a bittorrent-like application, you're also not particularly concerned
> with *latency*, just throughput.  Allowing out-of-order delivery primarily
> reduces latency, it doesn't do a whole lot for throughput.


That's a good point, I didn't consider that. Latency is only really
important for streaming media and gaming, so this probably is a bad idea
after all. Well anyway thanks for the input, I appreciate it.
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