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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Various Language Architecture Questions
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:43:37 +0100
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Simon Wright:
>
>>> Unfortunately, this is not true for some commonly used marshaling
>>> schemes.  Even Ada.Streams can be relatively slow (with long arrays
>>> with small components, for example).
>>
>> I've never understood why this _has_ to be. You would have thought
>> implementations could behave 'as if' to a large extent.
>
> Not unless this is explicitly specified because the number of calls is
> observable in most cases.

As would be the case if you had specified TCP_NODELAY, of course! (or,
worse, are using UDP).

We stream to an in-memory stream and then send the contents to the
socket in one chunk.