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> Recently however, one of the willow garage guys (Josh maybe? I can't
> remember) pointed me to try some tests a little while ago with node handles.
> If carefully passing and publishing a boost pointer, then a subscriber in
> the same process will simply receive that pointer and bypass all the tcp/ip
> layers. Was this implemented recently as a result of the work on nodelets?
> If not, are there any important differences between this and nodelets
> communication mechanisms?
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This is true for any intraprocess topic.  That feature is new in cturtle,
and was primarily driven by nodelets -- without it message passing in
nodelets wouldn't be much faster than between processes, so there wouldn't
be much gain.

Josh