Steve Holden wrote:
> JamesHoward wrote:
> Given the radically inefficient representations that XML typically
> requires, however, I think that worrying about localhost socket overhead
> is unnecessary: if your application was *that* critical you wouldn't be
> using XML in the first place.
Agreed. UNIX/Linux/Python interprocess communication is inefficient
compared to, say, QNX or Minix 3. But where Python and XML are involved,
you've already lost 2-3 orders of magnitude in performance over something
like MsgSend in QNX, or even OpenRPC. So don't worry about the socket
overhead.
John Nagle
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