User talk:Jacek Antonelli/Plugin System/Networking

Only 4gigs forever?
wouldn't it be better to instead of limiting the maximum number like that, allow for forward compatibility by doing somthing like allowing any amount of bytes to be used to identify the size of the message, like using all the bytes before an specific character, or using a fixed number of bytes as an identifier for how many bytes are used to identify the size of the message (likspecifying the version of the protocol or some other ID that would indicate how many bytes are used) ? Making it have a hardcoded limit is the type of thing that might create issues in the future, like y2k and y2k38 bugs and stuff like that old Windows bug that would make installation programs think a big hard drive had negative amounts of free space and such... --TigroSpottystripes Katsu 00:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)