[OSC_dev] OSC bandwidth

[Angelo Fraietta]

Andy W. Schmeder wrote:

> With respect to the original query, note that OSC has a protocol  
> overhead of 400% for transmission of single bytes (3-bytes padding + 1  
> typetag)

This statement implies that it only takes four bytes to transmit a byte 
of information over OSC. Apart from the four bytes needed for the 
typetag (you need the comma +  any padding top keep at the four byte 
boundary), the address space has not been taken into account.

Also, overhead is more than just the number of bytes contained in a 
message.  If anyone is interested in efficiency and speed, have a read 
of the research paper as it dispels a lot of the myths regarding OSC on 
these issues.

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