Re: Bandwidth

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Javier Arevalo wrote:

> CAVEY GERARD wrote:
> 
> >> Why would UDP games consume "much more"?
> > Well because of transmission reliability , and i would have say at
> > least more maybe not much more ...
> 
> I was gonna say pretty much what Mats already has. 

if (Mats == Mads) { ...

> There was a discussion 
> about these issues in the GDAlg list, with the subject "[Algorithms] 
> select()+recv() vs. non-blocking sockets", so it's probably best not to 
> repeat it here. Mats, check it out - apparently Warcraft 3 (among others) 
> uses TCP instead of a reliable protocol over UDP, which surprised me.

That surprises me too - however, if their realtime requirements are low
enough, and they assume very minimal packet loss, I guess it makes sense.  
It is probably a lot easier to get through firewalls, stuff like that.

> PS: the search function in Sourceforge's mailing list archive interface does 
> not seem to work - I can pack that thread into an Outlook Express folder and 
> zip it to you if interested.

Can't really read Outlook Express I am afraid ... :-(

Mads

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Mads Bondo Dydensborg.                               [email protected]
Did you ever notice how at trade shows Microsoft is always the one giving
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