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Comment by PaulHoule

2 years ago

How much latency does this add? Latency, particularly unpredictable latency, is one of the greatest stressors in software development work.

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TonyTrapp  2 years ago

It's right there.

> ...by sending interactive traffic at fixed intervals (default: every 20ms) when there is only a small amount of data being sent...

xpe  2 years ago

> Latency, particularly unpredictable latency, is one of the greatest stressors in software development work.

It took me a second, but I'm pretty sure the comment above is referring to latency in the user experience; namely, the delay between a keypress and perceived result. [1]

FWIW, tools like Mosh [2] go a long way towards reducing perceived latency. Mosh displays the user keypress as soon as it is registered locally (which happens without a perceptable delay). To indicate that it has not round-tripped, the character is shown in a washed-out color, last I checked. (Or maybe underlined?) After the round-trip completes, the character is displayed normally.

[1] If you greatest stressor in software development is the latency of your keypresses, you sound very lucky to me.

[2]: https://mosh.org