Re: [Pharo-users] Is OpenDBX alive?

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:01:07PM -0200, Esteban A. Maringolo wrote:

I don't know how good is to have a pure Smalltalk driver either, not in terms of maintenance*, but in terms of performance, memory, etc.

Linking to C libraries using FFI brings its own performance considerations with respect to blocking the VM. Speaking of which, what is the state of the art? Does the Cog+NB combo allow, say, to write an SQLite user-defined function in Smalltalk that is invoked by the C library per row of result? -- Pierce Ng http://samadhiweb.com/blog/