Winsock vs API Calls

[ioSys]

I wonder how much faster it would be to make the anaroch program with API calls instead of using a winsock control in it. just curious if it is some big winnings. (at leeast in the long run)  

(Its a program that retreives a page, filtering the data it gets and then its sending back the right request to the page again gaining experience)

[Adron]

I wonder how much faster it would be to make the anaroch program with API calls instead of using a winsock control in it. just curious if it is some big winnings. (at leeast in the long run)  

(Its a program that retreives a page, filtering the data it gets and then its sending back the right request to the page again gaining experience)

You can expect an unnoticable improvement. The overhead from using a control instead of api is magnitudes smaller than the overhead of round-trip-times.

[ioSys]

okey thanks! then my question got an answear.
I tried a bot made by someone else. it seemed to be made in java and it was quite much faster than the one in vb....strange i think because i thougt that vb one was quite optimal.

[Adron]

okey thanks! then my question got an answear.
I tried a bot made by someone else. it seemed to be made in java and it was quite much faster than the one in vb....strange i think because i thougt that vb one was quite optimal.

Was it really faster or did it only seem faster? Perhaps it loaded urls blind instead of waiting for a response to the previous request?