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&#39;t lock the VM. Or even better, let you choose, like VW FFI.<br>
<br>Cheers<br><br>Mariano<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 11:44 AM, St�phane Ducasse <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:stephane.ducasse@inria.fr">stephane.ducasse@inria.fr</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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&gt;&gt; Yes Alien is the way to go.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I wonder why you think that. Alien is<br>
&gt; - mac only (you may say it&#39;s not true, because one could build a unix or<br>
&gt; �windows vm that supports it, but that didn&#39;t happen in the past 1.5<br>
&gt; �years)<br>
&gt; - x86 only<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>I&#39;m not knowledgeable enough but I refer here to some discussions I got with<br>
eliot when we were at amsterdam. The comments I heard on the FFI implementation<br>
were not that positive.<br>
<br>
Now may be there is a road for FFI and Alien and it would be good to have the<br>
extension lukas did in 3.9.<br>
<br>
Stef<br>
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