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		jonstewart on Sept 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurr... This is very interesting. How do you manage latency of events coming over the network? Do... you... wind up having to set TCP_NODELAY? •͡˘㇁•͡˘

Animats on Sept 9, 2023 [–]

Embarrassingly, yes, because I can't turn off delayed ACKs from Rust.

jonstewart on Sept 11, 2023 | [–]

I learned about nagling 20 years ago when I helped write a networked game server and had to turn it off so that input packets would be sent quickly. Thank you for your response to my troll, easily a top 5 career highlight.

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