Ok...if AlienFFI doesn&#39;t support multi-threaded, then, I think the same as Levente.<br><br>Why should I use AlienFFI instead of the normal FFI ? Which advantages does Alien have? Does someone know ?� (I ask just because of my ignorance)<br>
<br>Because for the moment it has two disadvantages, the ones Levente said: only mac, only x86.<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Mariano<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/2/14 John M McIntosh <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com">johnmci@smalltalkconsulting.com</a>&gt;</span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Adding a multi-threaded FFI interface is always feasible. What I&#39;d suggest is some get their corporate sponsor to pay for it as part of building the Alien FFI plugin for�<div>
Unix and Windows. Then gift it back to the community, otherwise you&#39;ll see zero movement. �</div><div><br></div><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><div>On 2010-02-14, at 4:42 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:</div>
<br><blockquote type="cite">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" target="_blank">stephane.ducasse@inria.fr</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>&gt;<br>
&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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