June 10, 2011
3:23 a.m.
On 2011-Jun-9, at 17:47 , Chris Cunnington wrote:
Do you mean Alien?
Yes Alien....damned thumb keyboards....
Alien is newer and was written to address some shortcomings in FFI.
What shortcomings?
http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6100 http://www.squeaksource.com/Alien/ http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-project/2010-March/023328.html http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2010-April/148455.htm...
I followed those threads, but they don't really say why. NativeBoost is faster than FFI, but NB is a whole other ball-of-wax, and I'd like to support it eventually as well as FFI/Alien. Thanks ../Dave