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		debugnik on June 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC As mentioned in the article, this doesn't handle the case of buffer bloat: packets all eventually arrive rather than being dropped, but increasingly late, and only backing off can help reduce the latency.

eru on June 24, 2024 [–]

Does UDP suffer from buffer bloat? I thought it was only TCP?

Oh, it looks like UDP packages are also buffered?

Update: it looks like I learned something new today. UDP can also suffer from bufferbloat. (I thought UDP was done without buffers for some reason..)

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