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The thing is, when you need that low latency, you don't want most of the features of more robust streams.

When you are using UDP the correct way to handle out of order delivery is to just ignore the older packet. It's old and consequently out of date.

Figuring out how to solve any mess caused by mistransmission necessarily has to be done at the application level because that's where the most up to date data is.



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