Python / Socket speed

[Paul Boddie]

On 26 Feb, 15:54, "m... at infoserv.dk" <m... at infoserv.dk> wrote:
> Seems like sockets are about 6 times faster on OpenSUSE than on
> Windows XP in Python.
>
> http://pyfanatic.blogspot.com/2007/02/socket-performance.html
>
> Is this related to Python or the OS?

>From the output:

> TCP window size: 8.00 KByte (default)
> TCP window size: 49.4 KByte (default)

I don't pretend to be an expert on TCP/IP, but might the window size
have something to do with it?

Paul