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Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication (2021)

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83 points zardinality | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 13:42 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jeffbee ◴[20 Nov 24 15:59 UTC] No.42195134[source]▶
Interesting that it is taken on faith that unix sockets are faster than inet sockets.
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yetanotherdood ◴[20 Nov 24 17:39 UTC] No.42196345[source]▶
Unix Domain Sockets are the standard mechanism for app->sidecar communication at Google (ex: Talking to the TI envelope for logging etc.)
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1. ithkuil ◴[20 Nov 24 20:28 UTC] No.42197783[source]▶
servo's Ipc-channel doesn't use Unix domain sockets to move data. It uses it to share a memfd file descriptor effectively creating a memory buffer shared between two processes