[zeromq-dev] Is UDP transport needed in ZeroMQ?

[Arnaud Loonstra]

On 12/25/2013 04:08 PM, crocket wrote:
> Recent mailing list messages seem to revolve around UDP transport.
>
> It seems people need UDP transport in ZeroMQ.
>
> Since people seem to need it and the task of adding udp looks
> interesting, it would be a good time for me to learn the internals of
> libzmq and step in to build udp:// into it, however most of my time is
> tied to my current job now.
>
> Is it actually needed? If so, does anyone else plan to do it in near future?

I've also been looking into UDP. In my scenarios usually low latency is 
more important than reliability. (e.g. OSC controlled instruments, MIDI 
setups, ArtNET controlled lights) UDP is almost always the choice then. 
I've been using 0mq for a while now and I really really like it but I 
foresee I will need to revert to UDP again once TCP gets in the way.

Rg,

Arnaud


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