Windows IPC best practice

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what's the best practice to perform IPC between a main process and many sub processes it handles?

The question regards a situation which requires high frequency calls, and the server is operating in full usage of it's CPU for the length of the loooong calculation in each process

To sum up, what is needed is stability and performance

Many thanks,
Edo

Posted 17-Nov-12 19:16pm

Joezer BH

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Nov-12 12:34pm

I appreciate your desire for stability and performance. Nevertheless, it does not make a valid question, because "best" per se is not a correct criterion, as it also requires a definition of "better", which in turn cannot be defined without "better for what?". You did not explain your ultimate goals, the scenarios, etc. Look at this in this way: none IPC is really bad for stability and performance. Diffeerent IPC facilities just do different things; not that ones are "better" than others.
--SA

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Gilad Rozban · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-18T08:54:00

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Use shared memory : it's the fastest IPC. Initialize a semaphore in the shared memory and avoid running on kernel as much as possible.

Posted 18-Nov-12 8:54am

Gilad Rozban