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From: Latchesar Ionkov <lionkov@lanl.gov>
Subject: Re: [9fans] From our "not quite grasping the concept" file
Date: Thu,  8 Nov 2007 10:24:38 -0700
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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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