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Make ROS2 use zero-copy [closed]

asked 2018-12-10 05:02:41 -0500

uthinu gravatar image

updated 2018-12-10 05:04:03 -0500

Hello, I would want an intra-process communication without copying of messages. Does it work by default?

For now, the publisher code is:

auto message = make_unique<std_msgs::msg::String>();
message.get()->data = someString;
cout << "INPUT " << (void*)&(message.get()->data) << "\n";
native.get()->publish(message);

which calls publish(std::unique_ptr<MessageT, MessageDeleter> & msg).

The subscriber code is:

    ...subscriberMethod(const std_msgs::msg::String::UniquePtr message) {
    cout << "OUTPUT " << (void*)&message.get()->data << "\n";
    string text = message.get()->data.c_str();
    ...
}

This subscriber method is directly registered with create_subscription. I get an output like

INPUT 0x7fab70000b60
OUTPUT 0x7fab64000b60

that is, there is some copying in between, even if both the publisher and the subscriber are within the same process. I tried the above with shared_ptr, but the addresses were also different.

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answered 2018-12-10 05:17:36 -0500

William gravatar image

Hello, I would want an inter-process communication without copying of messages. Does it work by default?

No, not right now, see:

https://github.com/ros2/rclcpp/blob/9...

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