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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Sockets, TLI, or what
Summary: speed, too
Keywords: Socket BSD TLI SystemV
Message-ID: <77349@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 04:37:50 GMT
References: <9389@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <9389@ncar.ucar.edu>, davis@groucho.ucar.edu (Glenn P. Davis) writes:
>...[about TLI or Streams vs. Sockets]...


It would be really keen if someone could and would say something numeric
about the relative speed of TLI (ne XLI or whatever--any version more
recent than the one delivered to AT&T in 1986) compared to sockets
(any version from 4.2 to Reno and beyond).

Yes, this is my quarterly request for time-to-port-ttcp-from-sockets-to-tli
and/or performance-of-ttcp-over-tli numbers.


(TTCP is the most common TCP benchmark.  Most commonly used as well as most
commonly abused and perverted to generate marketing numbers, and most
commonly enhanced to do things the enhancer considers important.  Look
for the authorative source on brl.mil and more or less true copies many
other places, including sgi.com.)


Vernon Schryver
Silicon Graphics
vjs@sgi.com