On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote: > I just benchmarked the performance (esp. latency) of ipc:// vs > tcp://127.0.0.1 with the perf/ test suite and it shows that they are > about equal! Isn't an in-host network connection just implemented as named pipes by the network stack? -Pieter