Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: fifos & unix domain sockets
From: est_AT_hyperreal.org
Date: su loka 10 1999 - 14:48:02 EDT
Benno Senoner discourseth:
> >
> > 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).
>
> ah, good to know !
> but how did you compare the fifos to unix sockets ?
>
> make sure that you compare 2 FIFOs (for fullduplex)
> to 1 socket.
> Because fullduplex communication requires more context switches.
Ah..good point. I only tested one-way transfer. I suspect, however,
that the proportions would be similar for full-duplex.
Eric
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