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Those communication stacks are not suitable for general-purpose use; they sacrifice everything, including usability, robustness, portability, and a hundred other factors in favor of latency.

For example, such stacks often put the entire communication stack in userspace, with hardcoded knowledge of how to talk to a specific hardware networking stack, and no ability to cooperate with other clients on the same hardware.




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