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authorHenrik Tjäder <henrik@grepit.se>2021-12-18 22:36:11 +0100
committerHenrik Tjäder <henrik@grepit.se>2021-12-19 01:33:16 +0100
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@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
Message passing always involves copying the payload from the sender into a
static variable and then from the static variable into the receiver. Thus
sending a large buffer, like a `[u8; 128]`, as a message involves two expensive
-`memcpy`s. To minimize the message passing overhead one can use indirection:
+`memcpy`s.
+
+Indirection can minimize message passing overhead:
instead of sending the buffer by value, one can send an owning pointer into the
buffer.
@@ -23,4 +25,3 @@ Here's an example where `heapless::Pool` is used to "box" buffers of 128 bytes.
$ cargo run --target thumbv7m-none-eabi --example pool
{{#include ../../../../ci/expected/pool.run}}
```
-