Is there any benefit on Windows to use the WSA winsock functions compared to the BSD-style ones?
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Is there any benefit on Windows to use the WSA winsock functions compared to the BSD-style ones?
The most significant difference is the availability of Asynchronous Event style APIs in Winsock.
With Berkeley sockets, each time you
readorwriteyour application will ‘block’ until the network is ready, which could make your application unresponsive (unless the network I/O is handled in a different thread).With an async interface, you can arrange for a callback function to be called as part of the normal windows message loop each time data is received or when the transmit buffer is empty.