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Fast Cross Platform Inter Process Communication in C++

Asked 2010-02-07T22:00:26.173
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I'm looking for a way to get two programs to efficiently transmit a large amount of data to each other, which needs to work on Linux and Windows, in C++. The context here is a P2P network program that acts as a node on the network and runs continuously, and other applications (which could be games hence the need for a fast solution) will use this to communicate with other nodes in the network. If there's a better solution for this I would be interested.

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boost::asio is a cross platform library handling asynchronous io over sockets. You can combine this with using for instance Google Protocol Buffers for your actual messages.

Boost also provides you with boost::interprocess for interprocess communication on the same machine, but asio lets you do your communication asynchronously and you can easily have the same handlers for both local and remote connections.

answered 2010-02-07T22:06:04.960

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