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Article #74Re: A Comparison of Commerical RPC Protocols
From: Chris Siebenmann
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 23:43
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1989 23:43
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mishkin@apollo.com (Nathaniel Mishkin) writes:
| I would imagine that the time to make a remote call is dominated (or
| at least significantly determined by) the networking costs (i.e. the
| cost of sending and receiving network messages).
At least with Sun's RPC running over tcp, this is not the case as I
discovered to my surprise last summer. If you're exchanging structured
data, the networking overhead is completely swamped by XDR overhead,
even for Sun<->Sun connections using only integers.
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