Zbigniew,
Well, if you are creating the objects with C, this might be tricky,
but can be worked around. If you are writing/reading data from C-based
accessors, this is still a little tricky but easily worked around. If
you just need to call methods which are not accessors or constructors,
but are written in C, then this will be no problem at all.
Moose tries to make your life easier, which means getting out of the
way when you need it too. Maybe if you gave us some more detail on
what you want to use Moose for vs. what you want to use Inline::C for,
we could be a bit more helpful.
- Stevan
On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:55 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak wrote:
Hi,
Is it feasible to build a Moose object with an Inline C method?
We have here some Inline C based parsers for network packets (mostly
analogue to Net::Packet). They build a hash with the parsed values -
so using standard Perl OO I would just bless that hash and be done,
but I guess in Moose that would not be that simple.
For some background - the throughput of our communication streams
(SMS) require that it is done in that low level (this was a decision
done before I came here but I have done some rudimentary tests and, to
my surprise, the Inline C based vesions are indeed many times faster
than the Net::Packet versions that use pack/unpack). Now my task is
to write some OO wrappers to our libraries. Of course I don't know if
the OO overhead will not spoil the advantage that we get from parsing
in C - I'll have to verify that, I think this will depend much on the
usage.
--
Zbigniew Lukasiak
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