add support for "unix" transport where socket module contains AF_UNIX #829
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This pull request adds "unix" transport where underlying python's socket module contains AF_UNIX constant. This is, of course, available on all the unices, and since 2017 on Windows 10 too. Although support for it has not yet landed in the cpython.
The use case for this transport is when both broker and client run on the same machine - unix sockets should provide noticable performance gains.
Few remarks: