"In the performance world, we always go for the 'fail fast' implementation - as with any collection comparison, you compare subsets of the collection, and fail as soon as you know any subset does not equate. But in the security world, this can be dangerous."
"If you need extremely low latencies, you have to take account of the mode and route of physical transmission of signals as well as the transport layer. Fibre transmits at 2/3 the speed of light, and most fibre routes tested were 1.5-2 times longer than the shortest physical path, so a typical good fibre route is already ~3x slower than maximum possible. DNS lookup and TCP handshakes imply further large overheads"
