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. > > On OSX, IPC is handled via UNIX domain sockets so that the performance > relative to TCP is pretty similar. Future releases of OSX may change this. -Michel _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
