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Sending data as a message (ie memory copies) is significantly faster than writing it to disk.
Have a look at these latency numbers for a comparison of the speed of different operations, and remember that ROS message passing (network traffic) between different nodes on the same computer is actually just a memory copy, and never uses the network hardware.