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This chapter looks at performance of client/server systems where the client is either one hop from the server or might even be on the same machine. None of the object-oriented architectures we have reviewed places a particularly high premium on performance, nor is performance the first metric by which one would evaluate them. Yet at the end of the day, performance is central to what computing systems can really do. We’ll look at options for speeding up client/server communication. Most modern operating systems implement at least some of these features.
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Birman, K.P. (2012). System Support for Fast Client/Server Communication. In: Guide to Reliable Distributed Systems. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2416-0_8
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