On 5 February 2011 00:12, Levente Uzonyi <le...@elte.hu> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Luc Fabresse wrote: > >> Yes, but hopefully we will be SocketPlugin free. > > Is SocketPlugin buggy? > If yes, where's the bug report? > If not, what's the problem with it? > Just one: it is highly resistant to evolution and changes. As well as everything else in VM.
>> At the end, "There can be only one" (FFI or Alien or NB or a better one) >> ;-) >> IMHO, plugins are a pain to understand, maintain, integrate in the latest >> VM... >> so let's kill them as much as possible. > > Maintaining SocketPlugin (or reimplementing for a new plaform) is a lot > easier than doing the same with FFI or Alien. I wouldn't say so. > Eliot's threaded FFI plugin is > very complex compared to (the pretty simple) SocketPlugin. > > It could be simple too. But just not fast enough :) There's always a lot of tradeoffs to consider. > Levente > > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
