Re: [Linuxtuples-devel] best effort communication

[Robert B. <ro...@sc...>]

Bram Stolk wrote:
[...]
> Take e.g. peer 2 peer:
> I've always been bothered by the use of tcp in torrents.
> It makes absolutely no sense!
> You get chunks from the peers all the time... if one is lost, no
> problem: you'll get it from another peer later. Yet, bittorrent
> does TCP.

I've been wondering for some time now why nobody has ever
written a distributed tuplespace implementation that uses
p2p communication protocols. These would be ideal for large
applications with many many clients distributed over a
wide area.

-- Rob