What is the closure-over-dlfunc-pointer trick? Can I see an example of this someplace? On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 14:26 -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Friday, July 01, 2011 at 10:58 am, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > > On 7/1/2011 7:24 AM, Kartik Thakore wrote: > > > > chip during my talk you mentioned some technology for doing OpenGL > > > context/display lists better. Can you mention it again chip? I seem to > > > have forgotten it. > > > Hi! I was talking about tcc, the > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_C_Compiler . It's x86-specific but > > otherwise it seems like a convenient and really fast way to create > > structures defined by C. > > Are you suggesting an approach like Python's Weave or Cinpy? > > http://scipy.org/Weave > http://www.cs.tut.fi/~ask/cinpy/ > > The approach I had in mind was to build an XS file full of Perl <-> C thunks > and then use the closure-over-dlfunc-pointer trick of P5NCI to avoid writing > (and paying the cost of) hundreds of otherwise-identical XS wrappers. This is > even one spot where a little AUTOLOAD magic would help memory usage even more. > > -- c
-- Kartik Thakore <thakore.kar...@gmail.com>
