Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Regular pipe vs. Named Pipe Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <19382@rpp386.cactus.org> <3048.Jun1423.16.2891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <0M1C6FF@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Jun21.142246.25245@utstat.uucp> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 00:46:00 GMT In article <1991Jun21.142246.25245@utstat.uucp> tg@utstat.uucp (Tom Glinos) writes: > The glory of message queues is that they can be amazingly fast. Ah, an implementation detail. > When I looked into this several years ago I found that systems > that when a system supports both message queues and named pipes > the message queues are orders of magnitudes faster than named pipes. Yes, but that's to be expected. It's the same high priests of evil that did the implementations of both. If they had implemented message queues as special files like named pipes (easy enough to do) they'd be just as fast and we wouldn't have to sacrifice the purity of our bodily fluids to get our work done. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"