Localhost TCP socket performance

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May 11, 2004 at 1:16 AM

Does anyone know the performance of TCP sockets over the loalhost address? I might use this for an internal game interface. Like singleplayer games played over a local socket. Bots/AI connecting to this local socket. It keeps the interface nice and clean. Server and client nicely separated. But I need to know what the performance hit is. TY

SiCrane

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SiCrane

May 11, 2004 at 1:24 AM

This is system dependent. In most cases it runs faster than, for example, a connection over the internet would. But in many cases using a loopback interface actually runs slower than a connection over a LAN does.

kuphryn

May 11, 2004 at 1:58 AM

Generally games use UDP, which is a significant speed improvement over TCP.

Kuphryn

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