Interned strings

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Let's ignore timestamps for now and also ignore how access to the global logger is synchronized. This is the simplest case: logging a string literal with no formatting.

#![allow(unused)]
fn main() {
extern crate defmt;
defmt::info!("Hello, world!");
}

As we saw in the previous section this string will get interned. Interning converts the string into a usize index. This usize index will be further compressed using LEB128. Some examples: (values on the right are u8 arrays)

• 1usize -> [1]
• 127usize -> [127]
• 128usize -> [128, 1]
• 255usize -> [255, 1]

Because string indices start at zero and it's unlikely that a program will intern more than 2^14 strings string literals will be serialized as 1 or 2 bytes indices.