Is the example fail-safe? Also wouldn't this result in the same machine code in either case (i.e. the code's simply being written in a more condensed fashion?)
"In TCP connections, the large bandwidth-delay product of high latency connections, combined with relatively small TCP window sizes on many devices, effectively causes the throughput of a high latency connection to drop sharply with latency" --Wikipedia
It does equal bandwidth until everything is jumbo frames UDP