Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

estigate this further in the new year. > > > > ~ Ryan > > > > *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: > ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Charles Strahan > *Sent:* Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:47 PM > > *To:* ironruby-core@rubyforge.org &

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Charles Strahan Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2010 11:47 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI Here's Dino Viehland's response regarding the CERs: Objects which inherit from CriticalFinalizerObject basically have thei

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

@Charles Have you made any progress here? If so, what's your repo? I'm looking into this again this morning. Cheers, Ryan Riley Email: ryan.ri...@panesofglass.org LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley Twitter: @panesofglass Blog: http://wizardsofsmart.net/ Website: http://panesofglass.

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

Here's Dino Viehland's response regarding the CERs: Objects which inherit from CriticalFinalizerObject basically have their finalize method turned into a CER. The finalizer method is also JITed before any instances are created so the finalizer is guaranteed to be runnable. In general

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

I've decided to not be lazy and do a little spelunking into CER's - it's rather interesting stuff. I found a pretty good article here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163716.aspx In laymen's terms, it looks like CER's provide reliability where asynchronous exceptions may be thrown: OutO

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

I've not heard of any of those. I started looking at ctypes but never got far. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 3, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Charles Strahan wrote: > I'm also taking a look at IronPython's CTypes implementation, under Tomas' > advice. I've noticed that their MemoryHolder class derives from

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

I'm also taking a look at IronPython's CTypes implementation, under Tomas' advice. I've noticed that their MemoryHolderclass derives from CriticalFinalizerObject

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

Sounds good to me! Sent from my iPhone On Oct 3, 2010, at 8:04 PM, Charles Strahan wrote: > Ryan, > > Sorry for the long delay - I meant to give it some thought before I got back > to you... and know it's been quite some time. > > I think it would be a good idea to replicate JFFI, using P/In

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

Ryan, Sorry for the long delay - I meant to give it some thought before I got back to you... and know it's been quite some time. I think it would be a good idea to replicate JFFI, using P/Invoke directly, if possible (as opposed to P/Invoking libffi ). That would gi

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

From the mono-devel list: On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 10:35 -0700, Ryan Riley wrote: > Has anyone created or investigated Mono support for libffi? Once upon a time, Mono used libffi directly. It was removed in r724 (git SHA1 ID d0cd6059c1b2edad12eb67cb8e64b3cd187be1b1) on 2001-09-05 (and earlier). Un

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

Charles, I'm happy to work with you to get this done. I'm getting close to finishing some projects and will have more time to work on it in a few weeks. I will send the info I got from the mono-devel list. Where/how do you want to start? Ryan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 20, 2010, at 1:49 PM, C

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

le. > > > > Tomas > > > > *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: > ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Charles Strahan > *Sent:* Friday, August 20, 2010 2:35 PM > *To:* ironruby-core@rubyforge.org > *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI >

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

implementation with IronPython when possible. Tomas From: ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Charles Strahan Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 2:35 PM To: ironruby-core@rubyforge.org Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI That's s

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

That's something I'm curious about too. I don't know whether or not P/Invoke alone can match the functionality of libffi. I'd have to look through some of libffi and see if there's anything can't be accomplished in C#. If everything can be accomplished in C#, I'd go that route. We could emit types

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

Couldn't this be implemented via P/Invoke? Would P/Invoke work without the attributes required in C#? -- Will Green http://hotgazpacho.org/ On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Charles Strahan < charles.c.stra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ryan, > > I'm right there with you, only I looked at JFFI for insp

Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

Ryan, I'm right there with you, only I looked at JFFI for inspiration (didn't know mono had anything - could you share more about that?). In fact, In my infinite laziness, I posted a job for a couple hundred bucks on Rent-A-Coder, hoping someone could essentially port JFFI to C#, so I could focus

[Ironruby-core] IronRuby FFI

I know that we've discussed this in the past, but I'm interested in doing it for two reasons: 1. We use mono with a bridge to ObjectiveC and Cocoa, and we'd like to investigate libffi via mono as a potential replacement for our current bridge. 2. I'm interested just for the sake of learning more ab