On Dec 22, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Luc Fabresse wrote:
> ok, it is for speed.
> so why don't we use a FFI (FFI, Alien, NB or another) to directly call
> external lib?
Luc the primitive is just about one loop for reading and one loop for writing.
So this is not calling an external library.
Igor could not resist to show me the NB implementation he did about that
primitive a while ago.
I guess that this is terrible for igor to get a mac because he will not stop
working before
the vm builds from hudson (he worked last night until 3 in the morning
:)).
native boost works on mac
and a lot more
:)
Now seriously for native boost this may be a problem to rely on platform
assembler generation
to get speed when C is a portable assembler. So probably
