blob: 22c5774630766bed6f8d925c9360f1d88f128ff8 (
plain) (
blame)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
|
# Using indirection for faster message passing
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:
instead of sending the buffer by value, one can send an owning pointer into the
buffer.
One can use a global allocator to achieve indirection (`alloc::Box`,
`alloc::Rc`, etc.), which requires using the nightly channel as of Rust v1.37.0,
or one can use a statically allocated memory pool like [`heapless::Pool`].
[`heapless::Pool`]: https://docs.rs/heapless/0.5.0/heapless/pool/index.html
Here's an example where `heapless::Pool` is used to "box" buffers of 128 bytes.
``` rust
{{#include ../../../../examples/pool.rs}}
```
``` console
$ cargo run --target thumbv7m-none-eabi --example pool
{{#include ../../../../ci/expected/pool.run}}
```
|
