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		avsm on March 29, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating ... That's true with a TCP connection and its three-way handshake. With a shared memory vchan across two VMs, establishing a connection is less than a millisecond (if that).

mercurial on March 29, 2015 [–]

Sure, but if you're using both a read/write master and a hot standby for read-only queries on another machine, you're going to need TCP.

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