Re: use cases for MTOM

s/steaming/streaming

-Anish
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Anish Karmarkar wrote:
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> noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
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>> ANish Karmarkar writes:
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>>> I am using the term 'streaming' in a difference sense than you are.
>>> I was using it from the point of view of applications APIs (i.e. 
>>> streaming APIs) and not as a unending broadcast stream.
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>> But I think these are related.  If your "broadcast" stream is of 
>> modest size relative to the link speed, then streaming APIs are not 
>> particularly necessary.  To make the point, consider and extreme 
>> case:  you wouldn't want lots of streaming APIs for a 10 byte message 
>> "hey, I got 2 more bytes."  That's slower than a single call that says 
>> "I got all 10".  The deep reason for streaming APIs, IMO, is to deal 
>> with very large messages.
>>
> 
> Agreed. The message size is important here.
> 
> I was trying to elaborate what I meant by "steaming" to distinguish with 
> what John was envisioning, which was, streams of unending broadcast data 
> which does not go over TCP/IP.
> 
> -Anish
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