Timeline for Is a "protocol" a set of algorithms and data structures?
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| Jul 17, 2019 at 13:42 | comment | added | user53815 | oh! so if I want to invent an OS that follows the TCP/IP protocol then I should write codes/ use algorithms in this OS to make it process data into packets that TCP/IP protocol defines, right? | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 11:36 | comment | added | Tom van der Zanden | A protocol may specify performance requirements, such as that a response must happen within X milliseconds or data must be transmitted at a given rate. In that case, an inefficient implementation may fail to meet the protocol's requirements. | |
| Jul 16, 2019 at 2:54 | comment | added | user53815 | so, if a programmer combines a low-efficiency algorithm with a protocol, it is still acceptable and the rest of the problem will be the performance?right? | |
| Jul 15, 2019 at 13:30 | history | answered | Tom van der Zanden | CC BY-SA 4.0 |