Re: does 'disable networking' make mySQL faster?

[Sebastian Mendel]

Moon's Father schrieb:
> 
> On Jan 14, 2008 7:00 AM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@stripped> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>>> 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.
>
> Of course faster than before.

Why?
Any Source?

using sockets is possible faster than using networking, but why should 
disable networking speedup MySQL?

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Sebastian