[Vm-dev] callbacks and Cog

[Eliot Miranda]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Michael Rueger <m.rueger at acm.org> wrote:

>
> Eliot Miranda wrote:
>
>  I would rather not pay this performance penalty for every external
>> primitive call and only pay it for FFI calls.  Is this restriction
>> reasonable?  i.e. is it OK for the VM to refuse to accept callbacks in the
>> context of vanilla named plugin primitive calls?
>>
>
> this might be a naive suggestion, but couldn't you -or rather the plugin
> author- tag primitve calls that do callbacks and generate a different
> calling sequence?
>
> Michael


In the future yes.  But I have to support existing plugins now.  From
Andreas' response it looks like all external calls will pay the slight extra
price.  No biggie, but I needed to know :)

thanks all.
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