On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Godmar Back <
godmar@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The example file BaseXClient uses an unbuffered stream to write to the
> socket:
>
> out = socket.getOutputStream();
>
> void send(final String s) throws IOException {
> for(final byte t : s.getBytes()) out.write(t);
> out.write(0);
> }
>
> This yields extremely bad performance, especially for large queries (every
> single call to write will trigger a separate system call to the OS, which in
> turn will trigger a separate TCP segment on the wire). On a typical
> Ethernet, this means that 100 minimum sized packets are transmitted rather
> than a single packet to transmit a 100-byte query.
>
> On a different note, why is BaseXClient not part of the "official" BaseX
> API, or at least provided as part of the distributed .jar files in an
> org.basex.* package?
>
> - Godmar
>
>
