Comment by syncsynchalt

2 years ago

Ironic since Nagle's Algorithm (which TCP_NODELAY disables) was invented for interactive sessions.

It's hard to imagine interactive sessions making more than the tiniest of blips on a modern network.

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eru  2 years ago

Isn't video calling an interactive session?

  • semi  2 years ago

    I think that's more two independent byte streams. You want low latency but what is transfered doesnt really impact the other side, you just constantly want to push the next frame

    • eru  2 years ago

      Thanks, that makes sense!

      It's interesting that it's very much an interactive experience for the end-user. But for the logic of the computer, it's not interactive at all.

      You can make the contrast even stronger: if both video streams are transmitted over UDP, you don't even need to sent ACKs etc. To be truly one-directional from a technical point of view.

      Then compare that to transferring a file via TCP. For the user this is as one-directional and non-interactive as it gets, but the computers constantly talk back and forth.

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  • syncsynchalt  2 years ago

    You're right! (I'm ignoring the reply thread).

    I'm so used to a world where "interactive" was synonymous with "telnet" and "person on keyboard".