[linux-audio-dev] fifos & unix domain sockets

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Subject: [linux-audio-dev] fifos & unix domain sockets
From: est_AT_hyperreal.org
Date: la loka   09 1999 - 20:00:48 EDT


Benno Senoner discourseth:
>
> Seems like the fifo uses one single fifo buffer and doesn't care who is the
> reader.

Correct. :)

> that means no reliable fullduplex communication.

Emphatically correct. :)

> I don't know almost nothing about the efficiency of unix domain sockets,
> and if they are implemented by using 2 ring buffers to implement

I tested their throughput a couple of months ago on Linux. They were
about 1.55 times slower than pipes/fifos. A tcp connection on the
same machine was 1.6 times slower still (i.e., 2.5 times slower than
pipes/fifos).

Eric


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