On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Brendan Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]> wrote: >>birtthday pa >> i'm not familiar with ctypes. > > ctypes was originally a python library based on libffi. ctypes and
Brendan is right. I would have responded with more info before, but I was using my iPhone & mobile GMail while at my nephew's birthday party. :P Here's what mozilla says about ctypes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/JSctypes https://developer.mozilla.org/en/js-ctypes > > The advantage of that kind of interface is you can distribute wrapper > for native libraries in pure python/javascript/etc. Also, if you have > multiple implementations that implement ctypes, then your library > wrappers are totally decoupled from implementation. That's the idea. In practice, there's significant overhead in current implementations for v8 (https://github.com/rbranson/node-ffi). However, template specialization may help this situation. > > I think having both kinds of FFI standardized for javascript would be > really valuable to different people... I agree. -L -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users
