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merb • 11/20/2024 • 1 reply • view on HN

Btw. Modern windows also superports Unix domain sockets, so if you have an app that has another service that will run on the same machine or on a different one it is not so bad to use grpc over uds.


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pjmlp • 11/20/2024

Nice idea, although it is still slower than COM.

COM can run over the network (DCOM), inside the same computer on its own process (out-proc), inside the client (in-proc), designed for in-proc but running as out-proc (COM host).

So for max performance, with the caveat of possibly damaging the host, in-proc will do it, and be faster than any kind of sockets.

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