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Is there any advantage over sending multiple files compared to one file?

Is there any performance gain sending many files versus one file over TCP/IP?

(Aside from being able to only resend failed files if the connection goes down)

Solution

  • There is a 3-packet connect overhead and a 4-packet close overhead. The latter is asynchronous. The effect asymptotes to zero as file size increases.