Creating squeak pluggable primitives - a few ideas, some confusion, looking for like minded folks
Tim Rowledge
tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Nov 9 16:39:52 UTC 2001
Henrik Gedenryd <henrik.gedenryd at lucs.lu.se> is widely believed to have written:
> If FFI will work for what you want to do, it could save you eons of time and
> effort compared to writing primitives in Slang. With FFI you can call C code
> directly.
>
> Anyone saying that Slang is easy has either written large parts of the
> Squeak VM code, or book chapters on Slang ;-)
Nah, s'easy. I find it much, much simpler than FFI stuff, not to
mention faster.
tim
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