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.
> >
>
>This is with Mac OS 9 in particular?

This was on a Windows machine.  But, as Frank Leahy mentioned, do be careful 
with datagrams.  Delivery is not guaranteed.  In the particular application 
I was working on, speed was more important that was completely reliable 
delivery.

Scott Slaugh

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