Re: [Ironruby-core] Ruby FFI port

2011-03-25 Thread Wayne Meissner
contains > dlopen/dlsym/etc for each platform.  I'm willing to be that I'll be able to > piece that together with decent accuracy by looking at FFI.map_library_name. > > -Charles > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Wayne Meissner wrote: >> >> On 25 March 20

Re: [Ironruby-core] Ruby FFI port

2011-03-24 Thread Wayne Meissner
On 25 March 2011 04:58, Charles Strahan wrote: > >> Another idea… what about starting from http://github.com/ffi and replacing >> the C extension with C# code? > > That's a great idea, Tomas.  I'll need some immediate gratification to keep > me from getting discouraged; porting the C funcs pieceme

Re: [Ironruby-core] How could I get RPC in iron ruby?

2010-04-18 Thread Wayne Meissner
Performance is one negative - since most of the logic that would normally be implemented in C, Java or C# is implemented in Ruby, it will be slower. Libxml is callback heavy, and depending on how well the FFI impl handles these, the rather large number of transitions between ruby and the native li