Quick microbenchmarks of writing to file vs writing to socket on Unix machine.
Distro: #64~precise1-Ubuntu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz
# CPUs: 2
RAM: 1525696 kB
Network Card: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
Writing 100000 logs to file took 67354504 nanoseconds.
Writing 100000 logs to UDP socket took 1661525388 nanoseconds.