https://github.com/goldsborough/ipc-bench
Best results you'll get with Shared Memory solution.
Named pipes are only 16% better than TCP sockets.
Results are get with IPC benchmarking:
- System: Linux (Linux ubuntu 4.4.0 x86_64 i7-6700K 4.00GHz)
- Message: 128 bytes
- Messages count: 1000000
Pipe benchmark:
Message size: 128
Message count: 1000000
Total duration: 27367.454 ms
Average duration: 27.319 us
Minimum duration: 5.888 us
Maximum duration: 15763.712 us
Standard deviation: 26.664 us
Message rate: 36539 msg/s
FIFOs (named pipes) benchmark:
Message size: 128
Message count: 1000000
Total duration: 38100.093 ms
Average duration: 38.025 us
Minimum duration: 6.656 us
Maximum duration: 27415.040 us
Standard deviation: 91.614 us
Message rate: 26246 msg/s
Message Queue benchmark:
Message size: 128
Message count: 1000000
Total duration: 14723.159 ms
Average duration: 14.675 us
Minimum duration: 3.840 us
Maximum duration: 17437.184 us
Standard deviation: 53.615 us
Message rate: 67920 msg/s
Shared Memory benchmark:
Message size: 128
Message count: 1000000
Total duration: 261.650 ms
Average duration: 0.238 us
Minimum duration: 0.000 us
Maximum duration: 10092.032 us
Standard deviation: 22.095 us
Message rate: 3821893 msg/s
TCP sockets benchmark:
Message size: 128
Message count: 1000000
Total duration: 44477.257 ms
Average duration: 44.391 us
Minimum duration: 11.520 us
Maximum duration: 15863.296 us
Standard deviation: 44.905 us
Message rate: 22483 msg/s
Unix domain sockets benchmark:
Message size: 128
Message count: 1000000
Total duration: 24579.846 ms
Average duration: 24.531 us
Minimum duration: 2.560 us
Maximum duration: 15932.928 us
Standard deviation: 37.854 us
Message rate: 40683 msg/s
ZeroMQ benchmark:
Message size: 128
Message count: 1000000
Total duration: 64872.327 ms
Average duration: 64.808 us
Minimum duration: 23.552 us
Maximum duration: 16443.392 us
Standard deviation: 133.483 us
Message rate: 15414 msg/s