[LAD] further in on midi2udp/tcp

I have set up and run a number of tests now. Mido under python2, uses
5-7% of two different 2.4GHz+ cores for a one-way midi2tcp --> tcp2midi
link based on the sample code using blocking waits on both MIDI and TCP
ports. I ran into minor difficulty getting Mido into python2, and
difficulty considerably beyond my knowledge getting Mido into python3,
into this up-to-date Manjaro, so my next tests were midi2udp -->
udp2midi using just Python3 and libraries JACK-Client and 'socket';
this is quite promising, just 2% CPU total, and the test is a bit
crude. So now I'm working on designing an algorithm which models a
hardwired MIDI cable over a UDP connection. Specific goals are:

- MIDI over IP. Using UDP right now, will use TCP if a reason to do so
emerges.
- Simplicity. I want this implementable in dedicated hardware as
easily and inexpensively as possible. I want $20 boxes where I can
dial the src/dest IPs using dip switches. Dreaming? Maybe...
- Very well-suited for live performance. This means absolutely no MIDI
event dropouts without being unaware, and using MIDI resends and reset
in emergency to handle packet loss.
- Solid LAN immediately. Very slightly lossy LAN/WLAN next. WAN if
there is call for it.
- Reliability and predictability at MIDI standard speeds -- 31.5 kHz --
not bandwidth availability. Once this works it may be doubled or
quadrupled, or brought to HD-MIDI's clock once someone decides on
one.

The current software thought is to have both sides have two threads:
one thread running callback to JACK, the other handling UDP/TCP, the
threads communicating by Python FIFO queues, the UDP/TCP thread being
constrained by 31.5kHz wait-state loop of some sort.

Any suggestions, abridgements, et cetera? Also any thoughts on the
best way to build that UDP/TCP thread wait-state loop? I'm beginning
to imagine that TCP might have the advantage of being able to build up
the buffering...but all of this has been fairly far from my practical
programming, and I know that so many of you live here, so I thought I
might ask :-)

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