At 8:41 AM -0500 6/25/02, Dave Goehrig wrote:
>Last night I wanted to see just how much of the API very vanilla
>XS code would require. In the limited sampling I did, I found
>37 distinct functions and macros. Based on this, I'd say a reasonable
>guestimate for minimal core functionality is about 50 distinct functions.
>
>Best guesses would place reasonably featured XS support at somewhere
>like a mixture 150-250 function calls and macros, where reasonably
>featured implies some minimal amount of work to get the wierdest
>XS modules working. (which would be expected with any serious internals
>revision).
>
>Porting 50 functions doesn't seem that unreasonable to save thousands
>of hours of work. I'd be willing to take the initial stab at it
>unless someone else is more motivated.
That'd be cool. Be aware that Parrot, at the moment, has *no*
extension API at the moment. (None of the functions, save those
explicitly exported in the embedding code, will be visible externally)
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