Hi list,
until now, I've been fairly ignorant to Inline style modules
due to the simple reason that I couldn't get Inline and
friends to run on my w2k/ActivePerl5.6.1 platform without
MSVC++. (I know about PPM, but it's broken.)
Anyhow, since I've been doing some fairly complex calculations
symbolically using Math::Symbolic and need to use the resulting
formulas in a numeric environment where large datasets are
passed through them, I'd appreciate the extra speed of compiled
C, erm, XS. Math::Symbolic currently offers to compile formulas
to anonymous (Perl) subroutines. It would be rather simple to
compile them to ANSI C code.
Now, I wonder whether it's possible to abuse Inline::C or
related modules to compile the generated C code at run-time and
wrap it into an anonymous subroutine. (Or a package subroutine
if that's the only problem.)
Please be patient with me in case I just missed the answers in the
Inline documents, but I didn't seem to be able to find a
definite answer in the docs. I got the impression that this
is not possible, though.
Best regards,
Steffen Müller
