Going forward, hopefully modern software will use the modern approach of AF_UNIX sockets in Windows 10 and above: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_

Going forward, hopefully modern software will use the modern approach of AF_UNIX sockets in Windows 10 and above: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-... EDIT: And it would be interesting for someone to reproduce a benchmark like this on Windows to compare TCP loopback and the new(ish) unix socket support.