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- From: vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU (Vahe Avedissian)
- Subject: sockets vs. FIFOs performance
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.021407.4337@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: vahe@sparcy.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
- Organization: Robotics Lab.
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 02:14:07 GMT
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- I am running two independant processes on two (SGI IRIS) machines
- that need to communicate.
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- Since the two machines share a common NFS mounted file
- system, FIFOs (named pipes) may be used for the communication.
- I also have the option of using sockets.
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- I am sending relatively small data packets across, all under
- 128 bytes.
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- My question is strictly performance motivated. Which scheme
- can I expect to yield faster execution and response? I
- suspect sockets will run a little(?) slower?
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- Any comments, suggestions, feedback ?
-
- Thanks in advance.
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