[Tinyos-devel] message_t: starting to tease AM away from Serial and Radio

[Philip Levis]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 2:41 AM, Miklos Maroti wrote:

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> 5) When faced by the choice of wasting at least 17 bytes for every
> message_t or *occasionally* using a single memmove to reformat an <127
> byte message, then I know that I am going to choose the latter.

The key point here is being able to bound the number of memmoves.  
E.g., if the design ensures that there will be at most one, that's a  
good tradeoff. If there can be a memmove for each layer in the stack,  
that's much less attractive.

Phil