[Vm-dev] FFI overhead comparison

[Ben Coman]

How do we compare?...
https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead#results-500m-calls

I found this interesting (even though its beyond my ken...)
"For those wondering why luajit is faster than C/C++/Rust, that's probably
because it does direct calls to the function, while C/C++/Rust go through
the PLT (procedure linkage table)."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17161168

cheers -ben
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