Le Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:53:40 +0200, Victor Stinner <victor.stin...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> "For the record, pipe I/O seems a little faster than socket I/O under > Linux" > > In and old (2006) email on LKML (Linux kernel), I read: > "as far as I know pipe() is now much faster than socketpair(), > because pipe() uses the zero-copy mechanism." > https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/24/121 > > On Linux, splice() can also be used with pipes for zero-copy > operations. I don't know if splice() works with socketpair(). splice() only works with pipes. socketpair() returns sockets, which are not pipes :-) > Well, I > don't think that Python uses splice() now, but it may be interesting > to use it. Where do you want to use it? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
