[zeromq-dev] ØMQ VSM data alignment

[Matt Weinstein]

Clever.



On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik at 250bpm.com> wrote:

> Matt Weinstein wrote:
> 
>> Yes, but I want to do this:
>> 
>> zmq::message_t foo;
>> 
>> s.recv(&foo);
>> my_struct const* pstruct = reinterpret_cast<my_struct const*>(foo.data());
>> 
>> cout << "Works like magic: " << pstruct->member << ". All your processor 
>> are belong to Intel! (*)" << endl;
>> 
>> That's the no-copy approach :-)
>> 
>> I can do it with malloc() without issue or penalty...
> 
> Fair enough. Thus kind of stuff would break on RISC architectures such 
> as SPARC.
> 
> What about having VSM buffer as the first member of zmq_msg_t?
> 
> Martin
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