> And how exactly do you know that? Do you know anything at all about how
> the FFI evolved, which tradeoffs were made for what?

Where can we read details on FFI?
I am interested becasue I feel that the FFI implementation
 requires Assembly code to be compiled.
Is it true?
Is there any "slow" code in slang for platforms that do not have
 easy assemblers?

thanks in advance,
Ale.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Raab" <andreas.raab at gmx.de>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
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Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: Smalltalk: Requiem or Resurgence? {Dr. Dobb's Journal
(05/06/06) Chan, Jeremy}


> Michael Latta wrote:
> > There are some differences based on VM design and VW has chosen to
redesign
> > the entire way that classes are defined.  But, to a user it should all
work
> > if it is Smalltalk.  The COM integration for example on VW and Dolphin
do
> > not need to be different, and Squeak did not have to use a different way
to
> > call native methods.
>
> And how exactly do you know that? Do you know anything at all about how
> the FFI evolved, which tradeoffs were made for what?
>
>    - A.
>