On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 at 10:26, Guillermo Polito <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 4:40 PM Alistair Grant <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I realise of course that this could all be done in FFI, and I agree with >> all Estaban's arguments in favour of FFI, my main motivation was that >> the code is already in the VM, and to avoid code duplication with the >> obvious benefit that if a bug is fixed it will apply everywhere. > > > Yeh. At the end it's a matter of debugging cycles. > Imagine making the "compile-restart" steps that you're facing while changing > the plugin almost negligible in the "change-compile-restart-test" loop :).
This is true if the code only resides in the image, but in this case the code won't be going away from the VM any time soon. Anyway, for whoever does implement the code for FFI the option is always there. Thanks to everyone for their replies! Cheers, Alistair
