[Info-vax] Accuweather new contract

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <d23f61e9-f692-486c-b748-8429b2599feb at googlegroups.com>,
	johnson.eric at gmail.com writes:
> On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 11:10:05 AM UTC-4, Kerry Main wrote:
> 
>> Wrt to Multinet, I am wondering if your testing was before the most
>> recent version V5.4 and if it included things like fastpath in the testing:
> 
> This would have been 2010 so probably not. I can't remember if fastpath
> was an option that was available or tested.
> 
> The comparison strategy is actually very simple. Instead of focusing on TCP
> and all of its well intended options, I focused on UDP since that enabled a
> simpler baseline.
> 
> My basic mode of comparison was... how long does it take to send a single
> 80 byte UDP packet. I measured that by doing that in a tight loop. It was pretty
> easy to write a portable version that ran on both Linux and VMS. For grins
> I also write a version that used the QIO$ interface. That improved things a little
> bit, but Linux still won by a wide margin.
> 

Did you try it on a BSD stack?  :-)

bill

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