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and gotchas have been added, eg Nagle small-packet `optimisation'


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> 1.  It doesn't cope well with long networks (it hasn't
> had the chance to be tuned to the same degree as TCP).

Yes, TCP has had a lot of work done to it over the years
to get the gotchas out of it;  silly window syndrome, slow
start, etc ...
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