Oliver Smith wrote: > Martin Sustrik wrote: >> Messages below 30 bytes of >> length are called VSMs (very small messages) in 0MQ and are passed >> *without* any extra memory allocations. > Actually, this is a fairly important/useful piece of information. Can I > suggest that it be added to the main zmq.html of the manual under the > Messages heading?
Hm. It's kind of an implementation detail. Our tests have shown that for messages below 30 bytes copying them is less expensive than allocating/deallocating a chunk for the data. As everything stays opaque for the users, I am not sure why they would be interested in that kind of detail. Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
