UNIX domain sockets ?

[Jim Shankland]

> Even for Intrahost (same host) IPC I've used the Internet domain and had 
> no problem.  The kernal [sic] can tell that the connection is not remote and 
> doesnt send the data out the e.c/LAN (incurring overhead).

(plus ca change...)
But I've recently had cause to discover that using the Internet domain
intra-host is still twice as slow as using the Unix domain, apparently
because at least some layers of the stream protocols are still being
used (checksumming, etc.).

Jim Shankland

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