for some applications this really is not a big deal.. high frequency trading price feeds are all UDP. using check-sums and higher level protocols such as FIX can resolve any missed data. as long as both sides are running the same protocol with defined timeouts, reply/requests and handshakes, UDP communication is just fine. isn't µTorrent all UDP? On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Matthew Hall <mhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 04:45:46PM -0700, Jay Berg wrote: > > nanomsg protocols also work with ipc and inproc, so there is a higher > level > > abstraction here. all that we would need is to decorate UDP to this > > abstraction / interface. > > IPC and INPROC don't have loss / drop, reorder, corruption, > retransmission, or > segmentation issues. Network traffic does. > > Matthew. > > -- PGP: http://bit.ly/1gjvndi