On Fri 29 Jan 2021 17:20, Maxime Devos <maximede...@telenet.be> writes:
> I've got this crazy idea a few days ago, about the FFI interface. > When a program written in C is compiled with some shared libraries, > these libraries are referred to in special [insert ELF terminology > here] of the binary. I wonder if it would be reasonable and feasible > to do something similar for compiles guile modules? These sections of executables or shared libraries are actually *interpreted* by the system dynamic library loader, ld.so. Guile has its own loader, independent of ld.so, and so can implement this -- or do more flexible things. In any case we probably shouldn't tie ourselves to the particular implementation of a particular loader. Of course, dynamic-link was... not a great interface. But with the recent changes in git I think it can be fine (see "Foreign Libraries" in the manual). For the FFI the bigger problem IMO is generating faster foreign procedure bindings -- i.e. farther on the compilation-vs-interpretation scale. Cheers, Andy
