SDL_Net Performance?

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What kind of performance could one expect from SDL_Net? Is it strong enough to actually be used for a cross-platform server that could host thousands of connections at a time? Or would it be wiser to go with straight-up Linux? It just seems like with todays processing power and the like, for rapid application development, it might be acceptable to use SDL_Net to build a server.

Does anyone have any kind of experience with this?

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SDL_Net’s performance is fairly good. The bottleneck with network
performance in this case would be system calls and kernelspace <->
userspace copies.
On the other hand, SDL_Net is a bit clumsier than BSD (UNIX) sockets.
When I write server software, I use BSD sockets.
-:sigma.SB

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SDL_Net’s performance is fairly good. The bottleneck with network
performance in this case would be system calls and kernelspace <->
userspace copies.
On the other hand, SDL_Net is a bit clumsier than BSD (UNIX) sockets.
When I write server software, I use BSD sockets.
-:sigma.SB

Isn’t SDL_net not just more or less a wrapper around the native sockets?Am 24.01.2008 um 06:29 schrieb Solra Bizna:

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SDL_Net’s performance is fairly good. The bottleneck with network
performance in this case would be system calls and kernelspace <->
userspace copies.
On the other hand, SDL_Net is a bit clumsier than BSD (UNIX) sockets.
When I write server software, I use BSD sockets.
-:sigma.SB

Isn’t SDL_net not just more or less a wrapper around the native sockets?

Yep. The problem with SDL_net is that it is the common subset of native
sockets on at least Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. As a result, not all the
functionality you would really like for servers are there.

	Bob PendletonOn Thu, 2008-01-24 at 14:36 +0200, Albert Zeyer wrote:

Am 24.01.2008 um 06:29 schrieb Solra Bizna:

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