[Hampshire] blocking and non-blocking.

Author: James Courtier-Dutton
Date: 2009-03-25 15:38 -000
To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: [Hampshire] blocking and non-blocking.

Hi,

I saw this text when reading about network sockets
"using non-blocking sockets will be faster than using blocking sockets"

Does anyone actually know why this is the case?

Kind Regards

James

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