Am Sonntag, 25. Mai 2008 schrieb Mag Gam: > > what is faster as in performance wise -- a Unix socket for a > 127.0.0.1(loopback connection)? If there is any difference at all, the Socket should be faster. It is a data-stream in the "virtual" file-system. The loopback needs to create IP-packets. But the optimization might be very high, so you maybe won't recognize any difference.