Richard Brodie wrote:
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>>Seems like sockets are about 6 times faster on OpenSUSE than on
>>Windows XP in Python.
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>>http://pyfanatic.blogspot.com/2007/02/socket-performance.html
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>>Is this related to Python or the OS?
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> It's 6 times faster even when not using Python, so what do you think?
> It's probably 'just' tuning though, the default window sizes are in the
> same ratio.
Sockets and pipes are a terrible way to do local interprocess
communication, but it's what we've got. The problem is that what you
want is a subroutine call, but what the OS gives you is an I/O operation.
If you want to see it done right, take a look at QNX messaging. QNX
does everything, including I/O and networking, via its interprocess
communication message passing system. There's the cost of one extra
copy for every I/O operation, but you don't notice it much in practice.
I've run 640x480x15FPSx24bits video through QNX messaging and only used
2% of an 1.5GHZ x86 CPU doing it.
John Nagle
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