Hi Philippe,

By efficient you mean receiving and sending a lot such data? Or what 
kind of efficiency you want to achieve?

Janko

Philippe Marschall wrote:
> Hi list
> 
> Are there some guidelines available on doing efficient socket
> programming with Squeak for something like a server?
> 
> My read pattern will be:
> - read one to four bytes
> - read a chunk of up to 8k bytes, the number of bytes is encoded in
> the bytes read before, these chunks can be either binary or text,
> again this depends on the bytes read above
> - repeat
> 
> My write pattern will be similar. It could be made into bulk writes of up to 8k.
> 
> Does it make sense to use Socket or is it too much hassle and I should
> use SocketStream? If I should go for SocketStream is constantly
> flipping between #binary and #ascii a bad idea? If is it preferable to
> run #ascii and convert the integer protocol constants to Characters or
> run #binary and send #asString to the resulting ByteArray?
> 
> Cheers
> Philippe
> 
> 

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Janko Mivšek
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