Re: RFC 61 (v2) Interfaces for linking C objects into pe

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:04 AM 8/8/00 +0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
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>Interfaces for linking C objects into perlsubs

This sounds more like we want perl to act like C's prologue code, so we can 
invoke C programs without firing up a sub-process. It sounds rather nice, 
but getting this working most places could be more than a little tricky. (I 
can actually do it on VMS, if I can get perl built as a supervisor-mode 
image, but doing it on Unix would be more... fun)

It looks like the two benefits we get are we save the time it takes to fork 
and we present a little more control to the perl programmer. Is that it, in 
a nutshell, or am I missing something?

                                        Dan

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