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Fragmentation Needed
Personal blog · fragmentationneeded.netsystemsprogramming
Fragmentation Needed is a personal blog at fragmentationneeded.net about systems and programming. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN links this blog for its low-level networking posts, such as one on TCP_NODELAY. The one comment adds trade-offs to the point about UDP, citing QUIC and exchange protocols such as MoldUDP64.
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What Hacker News says?
This is true for simple UDP, but reliable transports are often built over UDP. As with anything in computing, there are trade-offs between the approaches. One example is QUIC now widespread in browsers. MoldUDP64 is used by various exchanges (that's NASDAQ's name, others do something close). It's a simple UDP protocol with sequence numbers; works great on quality networks with well-tuned receivers (or FPGAs). This i…
Comment linking /2012/01/dispatches-from-trading-floor-moldudp.html
on “It's Always TCP_NODELAY”Submitted Pricing and Trading Networks: Down is Up, Left is Right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything you've ever wanted to know about Ethernet taps as a story · 1 points
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