I have a simple question: Does someone know if AlienFFI still locks the complete VM while executing a function ?  I mean, it behaves exactly as normal FFI in that aspect ?   I would love a FFI that doesn't lock the VM. Or even better, let you choose, like VW FFI.

Cheers

Mariano

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

>
>> Yes Alien is the way to go.
>
> I wonder why you think that. Alien is
> - mac only (you may say it's not true, because one could build a unix or
>  windows vm that supports it, but that didn't happen in the past 1.5
>  years)
> - x86 only

I'm not knowledgeable enough but I refer here to some discussions I got with
eliot when we were at amsterdam. The comments I heard on the FFI implementation
were not that positive.

Now may be there is a road for FFI and Alien and it would be good to have the
extension lukas did in 3.9.

Stef

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