"Just Curious" VM question
Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus
schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Tue Sep 16 02:48:59 UTC 2003
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:50:11AM +0200, Andreas Raab wrote:
> Completely OT point here but one of the things where I _would_ dramatically
> like the ability to "store a function address" in the mcache is for the FFI
> - with a bit of help by some native code generation this could make
> marshalling incredibly fast with only very little help by something like
> Ian's ccg ;-)
Which of your uses of FFI are being hurt by marshalling overhead? Is
OpenGL noticably impacted? (probably depends on if you use a lot of glVertex() calls vs
putting everything into arrays)
Joshua
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
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