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Mention variable size advantage of UDS over SHM

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Robbert van der Helm
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3. The plugin then sets up a Unix domain socket endpoint to communicate with the
Wine VST host somewhere in a temporary directory. I chose to use Unix domain
sockets rather than shared memory to avoid having to do manual
synchronization and because they have very low overhead. Since the Wine VST
host can't access the Linux VST host's memory we would have to copy audio
buffers in either case.
synchronization and because they have very low overhead. This also makes it
possible to send arbitrarily large data without having to split it into
chunks first, which is useful for transmitting audio and preset data.
4. The plugin launches the Wine VST host in the detected wine prefix, passing
the name of the `.dll` file it should be loading and the path to the Unix
domain socket that was just created.