I think the GValueArrays are helpful because they provide run time type information, and they do the work of collect the arguments.
Just out of curiosity: How does Dova implement signals and argument forwarding? In case those are supported of course. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Jan Hudec <b...@ucw.cz> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 17:35:09 +0000, Aleksander Wabik wrote: >> Hi Pancake, >> >> I'll play with signals for a moment - will the marshallers be gone when >> using g_signal_emit()? I guess that they are generating much overhead... > > Unfortunately, no, they won't. They are there because C cannot do argument > forwarding. The, IMHO somewhat unfortunate, choice of using GValue arrays > instead of working with the va_args directly is what is causing the overhead. > > Note, that with va_args, any language binding could still provide it's own > set of marshallers to handle conversion to anything they need. > > -- > Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <b...@ucw.cz> > _______________________________________________ > vala-list mailing list > vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list > _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
