Re: Network buffering question

Alex Fraser wrote:
I disagree with Scott's suggestion of a large circular buffer. It is wasteful of memory and a long time ago I found it to have marginally lower performance than a simpler approach, which goes something like this:

Me too:) I suggested a large buffer, not a large circular buffer. What I use, and what your code also uses, is what I think of as a "slide down" buffer, where any remaining message fragment must be copied to the buffer start if it is too close to the end. Making the buffer large reduces the frequency of this copying.

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Scott McPhillips [VC++ MVP]

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