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by throwaway894345 1478 days ago
How does UDP / packet loss work with delta compression? If you’re only sending diffs and some of them may be lost or received out of order, doesn’t that break delta compression?
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The same way it works for video codecs which also send diffs over UDP. There are mechanisms to introduce redundancy in the stream, ask for retransmission, handle missing information.