Anthony Green wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > Okay. Other than supporting more platforms/os's, I can't think of
> > anything :)
>
> I haven't read the japhar source, but I'm curious about how you are
> using libffi. Often times people do not cache cif structures once
> they've been prep'd. You really only need to do this once, and then
> simply update the contents of the argument value array before each
> call. This can give you a big performance boost.
oh, very cool -- i didn't know I could do this.
> Also, it's likely
> that you don't ever pass structures by value. I'd like to make this a
> configure time option - which will also improve performance.
cool. yeah, we never pass structures by value.
> As for Windows... I've only tried building it with the cygwin stuff.
> What's painful about supporting the MS tools is the assembly code and
> build magic. I suppose someone can hack a Makefile.MS, but the asm
> code will have to be ported to masm, or something like that. I don't
> imagine I'll ever do this myself - but I'm happy to merge patches.
well, once I get my win32 system set up properly again, I can see about
tackling it.
Chris
