Yes, IPC on Windows uses TCP sockets so there is no performance benefit to using IPC transport versus TCP transport. They are implemented the same way.
We would love to have a named pipes implementation for Windows. On Dec 15, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Francisco Freire <[email protected]> wrote: > Charles, can you explain me better? Are you talking about using tcp? > > > 2013/12/16 Francisco Freire <[email protected]> > Yes > http://api.zeromq.org/4-1:zmq-ipc (ZeroMQ API reference) > > > > 2013/12/16 crocket <[email protected]> > Does ZeroMQ lack support for IPC sockets on windows? > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Francisco Freire > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing some research at Instituto Superior Técnico concerning distributed > systems and inter-process communication. Last days I was studying a little > bit of ZeroMQ and now want to use it in my project since my goal is to > improve performance between the communication of two different apps running > on the same machine. > > I want to know if there is already someone implementing the ØMQ local > inter-process communication transport using Windows Sockets and I would like > to know more about this. As I said my focus is on performance and if needed I > could start implementing this functionality. > > Meanwhile I will use tcp for this communication. > > Best Regards, > > Francisco Freire > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
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