CTFE Status 2

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 3 May 2017 at 04:22:00 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
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> I think any ordering should be done explicitly at the debugging 
> protocol level.
> for example when sending sourceline messages the order is given 
> by the line number and ordering can be done by the application.
> It's the same for breakpoint setting or for breakpoint trigger 
> notification.

Why? If I were to write a client for the debugging protocol, I 
wouldn't want to write protocol ordering logic (and essentially 
reimplement part of tcp). I would want to react to protocol 
messages as they arrive.

> As for lost packages, we want to respond intelligently as well.

The only way I know of to respond intelligently to lost packages 
using udp - if you care about the information in them (which we 
do in this use case) - is to implement a retransmit mechanism; 
i.e. you would be reimplementing another part of tcp.

> And maybe reduce the amount of data in the package, to make 
> arrival of future packages more likely.

You assume a causation between udp datagram size and delivery 
probability, which - however likely - is an implementation detail.