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AnthonyMouse on Oct 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A small warning about UDP based protocols

Of course it is, that's the point. You need to reduce the number of round trips because physics doesn't allow you to reduce the round trip time no matter how sophisticated your transistors.

bastawhiz on Oct 29, 2023 [–]

Reducing the number of rounds trips is exactly what quic does

AnthonyMouse on Oct 29, 2023 | [–]

There was no point at which I asserted otherwise.

bmicraft on Nov 2, 2023 | | [–]

You said

> that problem is intractable because it's a consequence of the speed of light.

The problem does seem to be quite "tractable"/managable with quic then, which it seems like you agree on.

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