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From: Latchesar Ionkov <lionkov@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2007 10:24:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1A9F262-8D35-483A-8FB8-D78AD9B6950D@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc1bc25a8840bebe37f441f0be1216b9@coraid.com>

It is not necessary the message to be in a single block of memory.  
The message header can be prepared in one block and the rest of the  
data can be in a different one. As Eric said, all this is transport  
specific.

	Lucho

On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:38 AM, erik quanstrom wrote:

>> That's one of the options. We are probably going to start with
>> serialized content (no copying of the data though) and if it is too
>> slow, we won't do serialization.
>
> i'm not sure i understand.  either the message is formatted (and  
> the data
> copied) or it's not.  i must be missing something.
>
> - erik


  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-08  7:31 ron minnich
2007-11-08 12:00 ` Richard Miller
2007-11-08 12:55   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-08 15:20     ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 16:07       ` Latchesar Ionkov
2007-11-08 16:38         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 17:24           ` Latchesar Ionkov [this message]
2007-11-08 16:10       ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-11-08 16:33         ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 16:42           ` ron minnich
2007-11-08 16:51             ` roger peppe
2007-11-08 13:57   ` erik quanstrom
2007-11-08 19:46 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2007-11-09  1:07 ` dave.l
2007-11-09  4:43   ` Paul Lalonde

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