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		m0th87 on Oct 21, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reliable, fast UDP-based data transfer protocol th... no, that's μTP. UDP is a 30-year-old protocol: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc768 it's substantially faster than TCP because it doesn't provide any guarantees (e.g. error checking); consequently it's more difficult to work with. this protocol builds on top of UDP to provide all of the nice guarantees that TCP does.

blasdel on Oct 21, 2009 | [–]

Like most people, you've missed the point of TCP. Error-checking is trivial -- congestion control is HARD

m0th87 on Oct 21, 2009 | | [–]

This is true, but my understanding is TCP's congestion control mechanism is far from ideal and the root cause of its performance problems.

whimsy on Dec 2, 2009 | [–]

Ah, yes, μTP is what I meant.

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