alt Hacker NewsI found this article while debugging some networking delays for a game that I'm working on.
It turns out that in my case it wasn't TCP_NODELAY - my backend is written in go, and go sets TCP_NODELAY by default!
But I still found the article - and in particular Nagle's acknowledgement of the issues! - to be interesting.
There's a discussion from two years ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40310896 - but I figured it'd been long enough that others might be interested in giving this a read too.
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sail0rm00n • today at 12:02 AM
Any details on the game you’ve been working on? I’ve been really enjoying Ebitengine and Golang for game dev so would love to read about what you’ve been up to!
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There is also a good write-up [0] by Julia Evans. We ran into this with DICOM storescp, which is a chatty protocol and TCP_NODELAY=1 makes the throughput significantly better. Since DICOM is often used in a LAN, that default just makes it unnecessarily worse.
[0]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2015/11/21/why-you-should-understand-a-...
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10607422