[sldev] UDP to TCP/HTTP - performance issues?

[Argent Stonecutter]

I agree with Callum here. We're talking about internet speeds, a  
couple of megabits per second at best. It's been a decade at least  
since we even had to worry about network overhead at straight  
ethernet speeds on typical desktop computers, and today the fact that  
some screwup in the audio drivers for Vista causes a bobble at  
gigabit speeds is remarkable enough that it gets remarked about.  
There's no CPU overhead in the network stack imposed by switching  
from UDP to TCP that would cause any noticeable effect on the kind of  
systems that are capable of running any kind of virtual reality.

I have to say, too, that there was a time that I would have  
considered the above paragraph hard science fiction. :)