Re: [pygame] Network

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Adam Feuer wrote:

>Quoting Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>:
>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> >Have you ever heard about soap!? ;-)
>> Or if you want some XML-stuff XMLRPC is even easier:
>[...]
>> Doesn't get any easier than that.
>
>Jan, Gustavo,
>  Depends on your application- I've found that the SOAP and XML-RPC
>stuff has a lot of latency. In other words, it's quite slow. I think
>this is due to setting up a new socket for each connection, and also
>parsing the XML.

Yes, I know that. But *if* the speed of SOAP would've been enough then
XMLRPC is IMHO even better suited. I wouldn't use those for a game, but it
depends on the game.

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