Mac OS 9 and sockets - are they slow?

[Scott Slaugh]

>In Classic mode, all networking has to be rewired to
>go through OS X networking protocols, so that's one
>explanation for the delay.
>Another is that MacOS pre-X never had a really robust
>TCP/IP stack, and was alywas a bit on the slow side.
>But maybe someone else can offer you hints on speeding
>things up.

I also discovered that I got a huge speed increase if I used datagram 
sockets instead of normal sockets.

Scott Slaugh

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