[zeromq-dev] FYI: 29 West IPC performance numbers

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 04/02/10 03:51 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote:
> Steven McCoy wrote:
>> Unqualified performance numbers are great,
>>
>> *29West Technology Updates*
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>> */
>> /*
>> *Sub-microsecond IPC*
>> Our upcoming messaging releases will include newly optimized code for 
>> our inter-process communication (IPC) transport.  This new version of 
>> IPC is being tested in early access right now, and is running at about 
>> 900 nanoseconds.  IPC remains a free component of all core 29West Ultra 
>> Messaging products (LBM, UME, UMQ).
> 
> Nice. AFAIK, 0MQ IPC via UNIX domain sockets is somewhere at 17us at the 
> moment. Still a lot space to improve!

It uses UNIX sockets? I though it would use shared memory segments and
semaphores (SysV IPC).

Actually SysV IPC also implements message queues...

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Thomas

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