Sorry, but I don't have really solid details to back up my assertions. I wish I'd had the sense to write a blog post about it at the time.
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:18:42 -0700 > Bryan Duxbury <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The explanation I got when I looked into it before is that the > > localhost portion of the TCP stack has been crazy optimized, so it's > > basically no worse than domain sockets. > > Does this also apply to non-127.0.0.1 ip's which are on the local host? > (like 192.168.0.1 or even a public ip?) > > Anyway, some reading material suggests that unix domain sockets *are* > (somewhat) faster. Ie: > > http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2009/11/realworld-benchmarking-of-keyvalue-stores.html > http://osnet.cs.binghamton.edu/publications/TR-20070820.pdf > > .. but I still need to check the details. > > Dieter >
