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Tests For Socket Performance at IBM DevelWorks

Posted by timothy on from the ball-and-socket dept.

fsoft writes: "In this interesting article at IBM develWorks, Dr. Edward G. Bradford explains sockets and does some benchmark between Linux and (various flavours of) Windows. Quite interesting results."

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  1. WSAStartup by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm finding this hard to take seriously when the first bit of code he comments on is wrong.

    The first parameter to WSAStarup isn't a simple version number - it's a high and low byte packed into a word. And 'using any non-zero number' is not guarenteed to work.