IIRC for most packets, UDS are actually faster (not by a massive amount) than named pipes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1235958/ipc-performance-named-pip

IIRC for most packets, UDS are actually faster (not by a massive amount) than named pipes: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1235958/ipc-performance-named-pipe-vs-socket https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1235958/ipc-performance-... and this advantage increases with packet size (from my own testing).