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Posted Aug 30, 2007 9:46 UTC (Thu) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)Parent article: Quote of the week
I wondered whether the Vista results were copying with a secure protocol (ie there's crypographic overhead for every packet) and the Microsoft engineers made the mistake of pushing some of that work into the kernel, or a high priority thread, rather than leaving it in userspace where it would lose out to the multimedia software and just slow down your data transfer when it ran short of CPU ?
Certainly the figures shown seem outrageous for just streaming TCP/IP data, but if I compare them to using SFTP here then they seem fairly ordinary. However the SFTP on this Fedora machine doesn't pre-empt realtime audio processes so none of the crazy workarounds from Vista would be necessary.
Posted Aug 30, 2007 11:29 UTC (Thu)
by gouyou (guest, #30290)
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I was also wondering if it had something to do with their protected media path, where apparently most of the internal communication gets encrypted ...Quote of the week