On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, dextro wrote:
> sorry again for yet another off topic post but this seems to be one of the
> only active mailing list i think that could help. i am programming a small
> chat program; meant to have a low memory over head but still have basic
> functionality. i dont even have a prototype yet becuase everytime i start to
> program i think of some different way i would like to do something. anyone
> have any good resources on multicasting? is this a viable solution to
> eleminate the need for client/server comunication with more that 2 users?
not entirely... for multicasting to work all the routers betwen you and
your clients need to support it. But it is efficient on the server
sending stuff to the clients. Not all OSes support multicasting, and
fewer support multicast for the server side. This may break your
portability issues.
for speed, you may just want to thread the responses. Even serial
delivery of packets is very fast (several thousands per second on 10bT).
Of course, I don't know if threads are completely portable either.
good luck.
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