On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Zbigniew Lukasiak <zzb...@gmail.com> 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.
Well it *might* work but there are no gurantees when you violate the MOP. You could build hashes and pass them to a class's constructor: MyPacket->new(%packet_data) Obviously this would slow the process down some. > 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. There are several options in this realm, a look at how some of the XS works in Class::MOP and a talk with some of the more XS savvy Moose people in #moose might help out too. -Chris
