23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
10:28 a.m.
On 10/23/18 3:04 AM, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote:
Sometimes the publicly available TCP handling code might seem to be too slow and bloated for an embedded software. Embedded developers are used to get rid of the security checks they believe are unnecessary, because it reduces both computational time and memory footprint.
Battery life is an oft-cited concern as well. And to be fair, those concerns, by themselves, are not invalid. So one question is, do they need 'full stack' TCP/IP? Could there be a lighter protocol they could be using? Is there any way to get them there? Okay, that's three questions. Jelte