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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: brltty 3.8
On 2007-06-08, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Lev Bishop, le Thu 07 Jun 2007 13:41:44 -0400, a écrit :
> > ...around 80MByte/sec, which maybe isn't as fast as it could be using
> > native functionality, but surely brltty doesn't need *that* much
> > bandwidth for transferring text?
>
> It doesn't need bandwidth, it needs latency.
Latency shouldn't be a problem, either. We run lots of applications
here over TCP/IP, many of which have critical latency requirements,
and have no problem. Look at VOIP. It's used on some intra-office
phone systems without any latency problems that I know of. I'm
editing this message in an instance of vim running on a computer in
a room half-way across the building. When I press a key, it is
echoed to my screen "instantaneously" as far as my human senses can
tell.
TCP/IP should be plenty good for your application, with the
advantage that you could use one mechanism, one piece of code, to
access the local machine as well as remote machines.
Regards,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
garyjohn@spk.agilent.com | Mobile Broadband Division
| Spokane, Washington, USA
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