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		ptx on Aug 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux Pipes Are Slow Why should sockets be faster?

uncanneyvalley on Aug 26, 2024 [–]

Sockets remap pages without moving any data while pipes have to copy the data between fds.

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