[lcdproc] TCP or .so

Andre Breiler andreb@rd.bbc.co.uk
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:12:57 +0100 (BST)


On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, James McCracken wrote:

> > > You can't rely on the connection (high latency, small bandwith, data
> > > loos, ...).
> >
> >Jep. Delays should have no influence.  

Hopfully but I'm not sure. If I look into the config discussion (config
only available on driver_init() vs. available over lifetime).

> The bandwidth we're talking about is so small, it doesn't matter.  These

Yes it's small but maybe not enough (if I look an this wireless link with
300bps).

> screens can't respond faster than about 8 FPS... the only big problem is
> latency, but I don't think we're going to see a problem of more than 1 or
> 2 frames.

Ok, we will see. But if we have to implement calls/rpc then it becomes
more difficult to ignore these problems. So we should remeber this for the
API lcdd<->driver.

Bye Andre'
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