[zeromq-dev] Why is the IPC transport slow?

Pieter Hintjens ph at imatix.com
Sun Apr 28 10:21:59 CEST 2013


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



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