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authorbors[bot] <26634292+bors[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>2021-12-21 19:02:49 +0000
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Merge #563
563: Docs touchup r=korken89 a=AfoHT Unleashed some language linters on the book Co-authored-by: Henrik Tjäder <henrik@grepit.se> Co-authored-by: perlindgren <per.lindgren@ltu.se>
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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}}
```
-