Mac OS 9 and sockets - are they slow?

[Doug Lerner]

On 1/12/04 11:48 PM, "Scott Slaugh" <xslaugh at hotmail.com> wrote:

>> 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?

doug