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by the8472 2283 days ago
It's not a normal procedure call within the same process.
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Right. Those are methods for IPC. IPC doesn't have to deal with all the same issues as RPC, and so those techniques are going to be faster as a result. You can't really compare them.

It's like comparing communication between people physically located in the same room and people located on different continents.

RDMA shared memory muddies that distinction.