Re: [Chicken-users] Slow unix-sockets?

[Harri Haataja]

On 20/09/2007, Peter Busser <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is it possible that writing to/reading from UNIX domain sockets using the
> unix-sockets egg is very very slow?
>
> When I connect the two programs using a normal UNIX pipe, then it takes
> less than 0.6 seconds for a >100k message. But it takes more than 4
> seconds when I do the same over a UNIX domain socket. That is a difference
> of a factor 8 or so. It runs on a 1G Pentium III machine. Has anyone of
> you experienced this too?

I wonder if you could give a small test program people could try in
different environments?

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