On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Liam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is anyone aware of a module which would allow most C/C++ libraries to be > accessed from node.js apps with minimal work? > That sounds rather like node-ffi. Using ffi is a way to do exactly what you describe, and is used in other languages. (I'm not sure how well maintained it is, and for performance sensitive work there's a significant overhead.) > Just brainstorming, I imagine this could be done by loading the library in > a generic process that provides an efficient IPC service. Library-specific > glue code to handle IPC msgs would be confined to that process, and not use > the (arcane) V8 api. A generic node module would provide the IPC client. > > I've written or contributed to a handful of C++ glue modules for libraries > and they're a pain to write and debug. Glue and library bugs can crash > node. And glue modules by different authors look different, so they're hard > to comprehend and extend. > > Pointers? Comments? > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
