does 'disable networking' make mySQL faster?

[Daevid Vincent]

I saw this on the PHP list and was wondering if there is any merit to it?! I would be
surprised if disabling networking made a difference. I'm only concerned about the added
speed. I get the security benefit of course.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Manuel Lemos [mailto:mlemos@stripped] 
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 12:57 PM
> To: php-general@stripped
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: SMTP vs mail()
> 
> Every time I install MySQL on the same machine as the Web server, I
> disable networking to make it use Unix domain sockets, for either
> greater speed and security.