[zeromq-dev] IPC transport

Jon Dyte jon at totient.co.uk
Fri Jan 15 21:49:17 CET 2010


On Friday 15 Jan 2010, Erik Rigtorp wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 14:32, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks to Jon Dyte there's a new IPC (inter-process) transport in
> > 0MQ/2.0 trunk (git rev. a507d16).
> 
> It doesn't compile on Solaris. I attached a patch that fixes this problem.
> 
 	Thanks for catching that, I didnt realise solaris (even 10) didnt define 
AF_LOCAL. There was I thinking I'd use the modern way rather than the 
old-fashioned AF_UNIX ! There is a lesson in there. ;-)

> >
> > Using IPC transport instead of loopback TCP transport cuts latency by
> > one third (on Linux).
> 
> On Solaris there is no difference, as expected.
> 
	You did predict that! Still at least it improves Linux.

> Thanks, great job Jon!
> 
> Erik
> 

Cheers,

Jon



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