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Old Pedant · 11-10-2012, 12:06 AM

Pure guess: TCP/IP is a protocol that is a few layers above direct socket calls. So I would *EXPECT* that the direct socket calls would be a shade faster. Mind you the TCP/IP protocol has overhead on a packet basis, so if your transfers will fit within one or a few packets I wouldn't expect the overhead to be much noticeable.

But I haven't used Linux in about 10 years so I'm possibly way out of date and/or my memory is faulty.

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Old Pedant Supreme Master coder! Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 23,210 Thanks: 59 Thanked 3,996 Times in 3,965 Posts	Pure guess: TCP/IP is a protocol that is a few layers above direct socket calls. So I would EXPECT that the direct socket calls would be a shade faster. Mind you the TCP/IP protocol has overhead on a packet basis, so if your transfers will fit within one or a few packets I wouldn't expect the overhead to be much noticeable. But I haven't used Linux in about 10 years so I'm possibly way out of date and/or my memory is faulty. __________________ An optimist sees the glass as half full. A pessimist sees the glass as half empty. A realist drinks it no matter how much there is.