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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Are We Back to the "Wars" Now ?
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 03:12:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2024 21:55:37 -0500, Phillip Frabott wrote:

> We had to drop named pipes solely because of the performance hit 
> because it is writing to a file system so it's being controlled by the 
> file system, even if that file system is in memory.

That doesn’t make any sense, if we were talking about Linux. Is this on 
Windows, by any chance?

> As the demand grows, we are actually at the limits of performance that 
> even unnamed pipes gives us. So we are starting to migrate to UNIX 
> sockets which has about double to bandwidth and performance of pipes.

Not sure how that works, given that Unix sockets are actually a more 
complex mechanism than pipes.