I think you are confusing User Datagram Protocol with Unix Domain Sockets. UDP are the datagram packets, UDS communicates via a virtual socket represented by a file on POSIX compliant operating systems.
-- ..Cheers Mark On 9/14/07, Julien Vermillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:18:50 -0400 > Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Domain > > Sockets are no faster than TCP over loopback I would love to see > > them. I would hate to spend much more time on this project only to > > find out that TCP would work just as well. > > > > Thanks again! > > > > -- > > Unix domain sockets are supposed to be faster due to the fact it's not > passing thru the operating system TCP/IP stack (ex : ACK provoquing > context switching) but using UDP I'm pretty sure the overhead is small > (perhaps the CRC?). It prolly worth a benchmark ;) > > Julien >
