On 9/30/05, Benno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri Sep 30, 2005 at 10:24:56 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote:
> >For problems that requires memory mapping, VM based languages are not
> >going to be a good fit (given my experience of them, anyway).
> Mmm, that is true. Languages I've used/know of, generally have `a way out',
> some way to bypass this, by writing some small stub in C. Which I guess I was
> assuming O'Caml (or smalltalk) would have.
Ah, I see. Yes, calling out to C is doable in a number of ways from
a Smalltalk runtime. The options cover calling a library and also
adding "primitive" functions to the Smalltalk VM.
All the best,
Bruce
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