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Wait a little longer and, if we are very lucky, multicast will be "re-discovered" as well. That way, instead of having servers shove data down many sockets to many clients, they will write their payload down 1 multicast socket to all interested clients, with said payload crossing the network as little and as far as necessary but not more.

So goes the wheel of progress...



Multicast is a nightmare over the general internet, from what I hear. It'd need some significant tooling to work properly.


Sounds like ZeroMQ's "rediscovered" multicast as you describe.




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