I am curious if there is any advantage to using Datasocket to read/write shared variables (as opposed to a direct read/write). I'm specifically talking networked shared variables here. Is there any speed advantage to accessing shared variables thru the Datasocket functions? Since both a direct read/write and a Datasocket PSP read/write talk to the same variable engine I assume they are equally efficient but I'm looking for confirmation here. I've seen benchmarks for shared variable performance but none of them use DS/PSP to access the variables. Normally I would not even think of using Datasocket to access shared var's but where I currently work we have a large app that does this and it works great. I suspect that this functionality only exists in LV8.x for backward compatibility and non-Windows OS compatibility and is not really meant to be used for new, Windows-based apps? Am I off base on this? I am working in LV 8.5, BTW.....

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Ironically, I gave the zip file name DataSocket, where there are no more effective DataSocket functions.

Vaibhav

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