+1 I know the feel. Especially when you try to wrote something to document it for others :(
Stef On Aug 19, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Luc Fabresse wrote: > > yes but the Alien chapter is more or less empty currently. > I started long time ago and I will have to write it once. > > Initially I wanted to described the most advanced FFI mechanism that exists > for Pharo. > I thought it was Alien because it supports callbacks. > But after I learnt that FFI callout was better (BTW it seems that the > NativeBoots callout is even better). But FFI did not support callback (it > seems it is not the case anymore). > > But a good FFI should also supports re-entrance and multi-threading. > It is implemented somewhere thanks to Eliot. > I do not remember the details: which VM? which Plugin? restrictions on OS? > At the end it is difficult to explain all of that and make it work if you not > spent lot of time on it. > > I think that we should merge every working and important part into only 1 > good FFI library. And we *must* rename it also. > > #Luc > > > > 2011/8/19 Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> > :) > Most of the things we do for pharo are freely available > > On Aug 19, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Torsten Bergmann wrote: > > > Just found the tex file: > > > > https://github.com/SquareBracketAssociates/PharoByExample-english/blob/master/Alien/alien.tex > > -- > > Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir > > belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro! https://freundschaftswerbung.gmx.de > > > > >
