Future Improvements
There are several improvements that can be made to this application, such as:
- A single, persistent connection could be created by the application. Appropriate error handling would have to be added. This would reduce the overhead associated with connection startup and teardown.
- The reply code on the server could be optimized to consolidate replies, reducing the number of packets sent from the server.
- Improvements in the protocol could be made. For example, an update bitmask could be used to signify which cells are to be updated, and only that cell data sent.
- Updates could be overlapped using different threads, so that the network is not idle while the ComputeNext function is running.
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