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0 pointsglandium7y ago0 comments

No, it's highly inefficient in the face of latency, because there essentially is no batch fetching primitive. Fetching messages over a high latency connection (e.g. to a server on the other side of Earth) takes forever if you have a lot of messages.

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throwaway765437y ago

That's addressed by pipelining (rfc2449, published back in 1998). No batch primitive is necessary if the request/response sequence isn't serialized.

The lack of a remote manipulation interface has always been a problem, however.

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throwaway765437y ago

That's addressed by pipelining (rfc2449, published back in 1998). No batch primitive is necessary if the request/response sequence isn't serialized.

The lack of a remote manipulation interface has always been a problem, however.

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