- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 10:06:26 -0400
- To: Mark Nottingham <mark.nottingham@bea.com>
- Cc: Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>, "John J. Barton" <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>, "Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
ANish Karmarkar writes: > 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. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Noah Mendelsohn Voice: 1-617-693-4036 IBM Corporation Fax: 1-617-693-8676 One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 ------------------------------------------------------------------
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