Commit 8e644f0e authored by Antoine Pitrou's avatar Antoine Pitrou

Reword IPC section

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If you need fast IPC between two processes on one machine, you should look into
whatever form of shared memory the platform offers. A simple protocol based
around shared memory and locks or semaphores is by far the fastest technique.
pipes or shared memory. If you do decide to use AF_INET sockets, bind the
"server" socket to ``'localhost'``. On most platforms, this will take a
shortcut around a couple of layers of network code and be quite a bit faster.
If you do decide to use sockets, bind the "server" socket to ``'localhost'``. On
most platforms, this will take a shortcut around a couple of layers of network
code and be quite a bit faster.
.. seealso::
The :mod:`multiprocessing` integrates cross-platform IPC into a higher-level
API.
Using a Socket
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