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

[Miklos Maroti]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Philip Levis<pal at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.

I totally agree. Miklos