"In Unix environment with Mono, this can be a fully qualified path to MySQL socket filename. With this configuration, the Unix socket will be used instead of TCP/IP socket. Currently only a single socket name can be given so accessing MySQL in a replicated environment using Unix sockets is not currently supported."
#117 proposes a theory that TCP buffering may be causing slowdowns. Implementing Unix Domain Sockets will allow for benchmarking the library while circumventing the TCP layer, giving a better idea of the performance potential of the library without TCP.
"In Unix environment with Mono, this can be a fully qualified path to MySQL socket filename. With this configuration, the Unix socket will be used instead of TCP/IP socket. Currently only a single socket name can be given so accessing MySQL in a replicated environment using Unix sockets is not currently supported."
#117 proposes a theory that TCP buffering may be causing slowdowns. Implementing Unix Domain Sockets will allow for benchmarking the library while circumventing the TCP layer, giving a better idea of the performance potential of the library without TCP.