From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12414 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Jul 2003 14:13:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14912 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2003 14:13:30 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:13:29 -0400 (EDT) From: wes chow To: Dave Nellans Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1058931820.23552.4.camel@malfus> Message-ID: References: <200307222031.01286.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1058931820.23552.4.camel@malfus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] What is the fastest mechanism for ipc communication under the gentoo-sources kernel X-Archives-Salt: a6207c25-2659-45cb-99ba-95b8434710e5 X-Archives-Hash: 555c12967ba6a40749283a22223dc910 Actually, I'd really start to question the application's realtime requirements if you start favoring one form of IPC over the other because of slight performance differences. My advice is to use the mechanism that's going to require the least amount of maintenance, ie the cleanest design. Generally, programmer time is more valuable than processor time. Wes -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list