fastest (low latency) method for Inter Process Communication between Java and C/C++

Question

I have a Java app, connecting through TCP socket to a \"server\" developed in C/C++.

both app & server are running on the same machine, a Solaris box (but we\'re

Answer 1

A late arrival, but wanted to point out an open source project dedicated to measuring ping latency using Java NIO.

Further explored/explained in this blog post. The results are(RTT in nanos):

Implementation, Min,   50%,   90%,   99%,   99.9%, 99.99%,Max
IPC busy-spin,  89,    127,   168,   3326,  6501,  11555, 25131
UDP busy-spin,  4597,  5224,  5391,  5958,  8466,  10918, 18396
TCP busy-spin,  6244,  6784,  7475,  8697,  11070, 16791, 27265
TCP select-now, 8858,  9617,  9845,  12173, 13845, 19417, 26171
TCP block,      10696, 13103, 13299, 14428, 15629, 20373, 32149
TCP select,     13425, 15426, 15743, 18035, 20719, 24793, 37877

This is along the lines of the accepted answer. System.nanotime() error (estimated by measuring nothing) is measured at around 40 nanos so for the IPC the actual result might be lower. Enjoy.