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Can you elaborate on why pausing on sending is particularly tricky when sending a multi-byte length header compared to say pauses on any other part of the paylo
by lttlrck 13y ago
Can you elaborate on why pausing on sending is particularly tricky when sending a multi-byte length header compared to say pauses on any other part of the payload?
- unoti 13y agoIt's particularly tricky when dealing with async code, where you can't simply say "block here till you have 4 bytes." If you're just getting in events that say "you received n bytes and here they are."
- mattgreenrocks 13y agoAll networking code should work even if it receives 1 byte at a time. Use a buffer, and have some sort of abstraction responsible for packetizing the input. The output of that module is a fully formed frame ready for interpretation.