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ricardobeat on April 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: SQLite performance tuning: concurrent reads, multi...

Loopback interfaces in Linux bypass the network stack (and maybe in windows server as well?).

withinboredom on April 13, 2023 [–]

I believe you still have TCP serialization (including packet fragmentation) in a loopback, but not in a unix socket. I could be wrong though.

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