On 30 July 2012 17:26, Michel Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Chuck Remes <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Iggy Philly wrote: > > > On Windows, IPC is *currently* handled by opening up a local TCP > connection > > through loopback. However, that could change in a future release and > result > > in a performance change. > > > > Same is true for Linux; more recent releases have a highly optimized > kernel > > code path for IPC than for TCP to the same host. Try it and see. > > I always thought (and it looks to me by brief code inspection) that > Linux uses domain sockets as well. > > I think the point is Unix sockets are faster than TCP because of less layers to traverse. Solaris is still I think the only OS that can bump localhost TCP connections to Unix sockets. -- Steve-o
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