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Good, alternate Socket? - Obsidian - 03-12-2006
I'm going to change the socket for my client, i thought about IOCP, but i would like something that isn't going to require atleast windows xp. I plan on looking around a bit, but if anyone has any good suggestions please let me know. The current sockets that i'm aware of are WinSock, SOX, and IOCP. I don't really know too much about SOX though, i've just heard of it. Thanks for any info.
- William - 11-12-2006
Play nice guys.
- Obsidian - 11-12-2006
Thanks shan, you can actually delete this topic... i'm going to go ahead and go with the SOX wrapper, and i'm going to get in touch with spodi if i need more information on it.
- Spodi - 11-12-2006
Obsidian, I am almost done rewriting the Sox wrapper (thanks to you bringing this topic up which reminded me to do so) for public usage that removes all the unused functions in vbGORE and doesn't use error returning and such, along with is just a lot smaller / faster. If you're interested, I can send it to you. You probably wont need any of the things I removed anyways for a typical server/client connection. :wink:
- William - 11-12-2006
So this SOX control, is it faster than winsock?
- TheRealDamien - 11-12-2006
It supost to be a lot more stable than IOCP. I also hear its powerful but I dont know if it is as powerful as IOCP. In any case it must be better than the current MS winsock.
- Spodi - 11-12-2006
Sox IS Winsock - it is nothing more then a wrapper for the Winsock API.
- William - 12-12-2006
Spodi Wrote:Sox IS Winsock - it is nothing more then a wrapper for the Winsock API.
I know, I read about it
So the only reason to use it is that it's easier to use then.