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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: TCP latency
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 13:09:21 -0700
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tedm@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
] [blah blah deleted]
]
] I have to interject something here on this discussion:
]
] I feel this has gotten so academic that it is meaningless. Who
] cares what the latency/throughput figures are or who is winning
] the current benchmark in vogue!
I would have to hazard the guess that people who design before
they implement, care, since a discussion of the issues is
important to choosing the correct approach for a design.
It's called "engineering".
[ ... analysis deleted ... ]
I happen to disagree with much of your analysis; I believe it to
be based on flawed assumptions. Logic, however rigorous, will
result in the wrong answers if formalized from incorrect initial
assumptions.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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or previous employers.