On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:34 , erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > > this is not correct. tcp doesn't help at all when the wire is fast (short, > fat). it's the classic tradeoff of cpu > for (networking) performance. the wire being fast enough is an argument > against using tcp, > not for it.
I don't think what we're saying is incompatible. I'm not saying that tcp helps, or doesn't have overhead, with fast pipes. I'm saying that the pipes are fast enough that in most use cases, at least for me, the pipe is fast enough that ((wire speed) - (tcp/ip overhead)) is still plenty fast.
