From: Michael Widenius Date: May 9 2001 8:39pm Subject: Named pipes vs local sockets List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/760 Message-Id: <15097.43802.649964.850960@narttu.mysql.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! >>>>> "Yuri" == Yuri Dario writes: Yuri> Hi, Yuri> I'm working again on OS/2 port, with a different compiler. Yuri> The windows server can also use named pipes for local communitations. Yuri> Is it faster that local sockets or tcpip? I did test this a long time ago and I can't at this point remember the results. I think named pipes was a couple of % faster, but not that much. Yuri> because I'm considering to enable the same code also under OS/2, pipes Yuri> are handled in a similar way. But I can do this only if I can get a Yuri> speed increase in client/server communications. Regards, Monty