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, Stéphane 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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