Nameed pipes Vs sockets

[Palaniappan]

Hi all,
Now i am using two named pipes for Inter Process communication (IPC).
will i get speed advantage if i use sockets ?.
which one is best for perl IPC ?
anybody analyzed this earlier in perl ?

Thanks in advance,
palani

 

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth (e-mail address removed) (Palaniappan):

Hi all,
Now i am using two named pipes for Inter Process communication (IPC).
will i get speed advantage if i use sockets ?.

Benchmark it and see. Which is faster almost certainly depends
critically on your OS.

which one is best for perl IPC ?

They are different... with sockets, you get one filehandle for full
duplex communication, and you get proper connection handling; OTOH, you
have to mess with accepting connections. With fifos you can just open
them and get on with it, OTOH so can someone else and make a right mess
of your data. INET-domain sockets are also far more portable than either
fifos or Unix-domain sockets.

Decide based on your program's needs, rather than on some ficticious
idea that one approach will be significantly more performant than the
other.

Ben