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Re: [sc-users] TCP default?



good point. Careful benchmarking really might be necessary to decide this, see e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47903/udp-vs-tcp-how-much-faster-is-it


> On 19.12.2016, at 22:15, Ogborn, David <ogbornd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> +1 !
> 
> Yours truly,
> David
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> Subject: [sc-users] TCP default?
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> File this under "not urgent":
> 
>  - Networks are much faster than they were when the decision was made to have a UDP default
> 
>  - Many OSC messages are in fact "better late than never": e.g. dropping a /n_free can be a lot worse than eg a moment of audio dropping out. UDP can drop out or reorder even on localhost(!)
> 
>  - Most SC development is done on localhost, where TCP is plenty fast. We assume you have to do more tinkering when you use a machine not on localhost; maybe that tinkering would include considering the switch to UDP?
> 
> Any thoughts on switching at some point? (Or doing some exploratory benchmarking?)
> 
> Tom
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