> it's not something that can't be done, it just hasn't been done yet, IMHO.
Right. It's doable, it's just not actually that great of an idea. --Josh On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Matt <hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Joshua Holbrook <josh.holbr...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Python has a python/c barrier yes, but python's runtime is better >> equipped to handle crossing the boundary with low overhead because it >> was written with that use case in mind. v8, on the other hand, is >> optimized for running javascript code and so making the jump back and >> forth is considerably more effort for the vm. >> >> I'm sure someone with more experience with node C bindings (or python >> C bindings for that matter) could give a more technical explanation. >> I'm more of an end-user and not as much a developer when it comes to >> such bindings. > > > I'm familiar with Node's C++ bindings and I'm very familiar with Perl's C > interface (XS) and the overheads of passing objects back and forth there. > And Perl was designed very similarly to Python in that sense. The answer is > there's not that much difference between Node and Perl in that respect, and > I haven't seen any reason the equivalent to NumPy (or PDL which is the Perl > equivalent) couldn't be built in Node from my knowledge of the internals. > > Not that this exists now, or is even in the scope of a masters thesis, but > I'm just saying it's not something that can't be done, it just hasn't been > done yet, IMHO. > > Matt. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Joshua Holbrook Engineer Nodejitsu Inc. j...@nodejitsu.com -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
