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What do you mean by internal pipes? Do you mean file descriptors? Why is reducing the number of file descriptors a good thing? After all, the total amount of tr
by FooBarWidget 12y ago
What do you mean by internal pipes? Do you mean file descriptors? Why is reducing the number of file descriptors a good thing? After all, the total amount of traffic stays the same.
- jkarneges 12y agoIf you have a lot of fds, then you have fd polling issues to deal with for high performance. To be honest I've not actually benchmarked anything comparing the throughput of an efficient fd poller to multiplexed pipe. It just feels nice to avoid the problem, considering what kind of effort can go into those pollers. Some discussion from Zed about fd polling: https://web.archive.org/web/20120225022154/http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1280829388.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120225022154/http://sheddingbi...