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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] running plan9 : an ideal setup?
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On Nov 21, 2014, at 9:34 , erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>=20
> this is not correct.  tcp doesn't help at all when the wire is fast =
(short, fat).  it's the classic tradeoff of cpu
> for (networking) performance.  the wire being fast enough is an =
argument against using tcp,
> not for it.

I don't think what we're saying is incompatible. I'm not saying that tcp =
helps, or doesn't have overhead, with fast pipes. I'm saying that the =
pipes are fast enough that in most use cases, at least for me, the pipe =
is fast enough that ((wire speed) - (tcp/ip overhead)) is still plenty =
fast.=