Optimizing sockets to 1000 requests/sec? (Was: Sockets and messaging services)

[Duncan Grisby]

In article <7xbsi4cg6m.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
 Paul Rubin  <phr-n2001d at nightsong.com> wrote:

>If it's on the local machine, why mess with TCP at all, instead of using
>AF_UNIX?  I'm not sure whether the OP intended to run locally tough.

Indeed, using Unix sockets makes it 20% to 25% faster than the TCP
loopback. Somewhere along the line I got the impression we were
talking about TCP, though.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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