Reason for 30ms Task.Delay in DataReceiver?

[derMaaster]

Hi,

Within WatsonTcpClient.cs line 770 there is this code in the read-message region:

await _ReadLock.WaitAsync(token); WatsonMessage msg = await _MessageBuilder.BuildFromStream(_DataStream, token); if (msg == null) { await Task.Delay(30, token).ConfigureAwait(false); continue; }

Can someone please explain the logic of the above code specific to the Task.Delay of 30 milliseconds?

With that asked, it is mentioned in the README that WatsonTcp is the fastest, meaning it is a latency sensitive / optimized library?

[jchristn]

This Task.Delay is used to create a pause before checking (again) for another available message. Since framing is involved, it wouldn't make sense to immediately continue (framing data has to be deserialized, data has to be read from the socket, and so on).

When I claim it's the "fastest", it means the amount of time it takes a developer to get a TCP server and client up and running :)

[derMaaster]

Many thanks Joel.