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What is the performance difference between various FltCreate functions?
I don't know if broad questions like these are allowed here (If not, I would be grateful if you can point me to other places); But I could not find anything related to performance in the official documentation.
I am particularly talking about these two:
Do they work the same but just change the amount of features they provide without affecting performance?
Thanks for any helpful comments or pointers.
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One of those creates a Filter Manager Communication Port for user <-> kernel communication. The other one opens a named pipe.
They're entirely different so there's no way to compare the performance of the two...
-scott
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