On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > how is UDP different from TCP? > > The phrase "UDP" never appears in the HOWTO. DGRAM sockets get a brief > mention as "anything else" in the sentence: "... you’ll get better behavior > and performance from a STREAM socket than anything else ...". (To be fair, > I do endorse teaching that "the difference between TCP and UDP is that you > should not use UDP" to anyone not sufficiently advanced to read the relevant > reference documentation themselves.)
And if UDP starts sounding tempting due to excessively high latency, these days it's worth looking up the specs for the interplanetary internet instead. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com