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I was talking with the head technical honcho of one of the large Massive Multiplayer games.

I worry a lot about scalable performance, but I had to laugh when I compare the issues that I have had in the enterprise, to his.

Imagine having to rewrite firmware for routers and such because it is the bottleneck. Firmware. Ouch.

He has a tough problem because his world is all about tiny packets, and a huge amount of them. Needing low latency in that environment is a tough problem.

Now I can feel good about the problems that I am having to solve at the moment :)

*walks off to recompile ciscos os*