2008/12/6 Antony Blakey <antony.blakey at gmail.com>:
>
> On 05/12/2008, at 7:13 AM, jordi inglada wrote:
>
>> Thank you all for the answers. I had a look at FANN and even asked the
>> developer of the Squeak bindings, but, as far as I understand, it is not
>> easy at all to proceed using FFI.
>>
>> Since I wanted to wrap a library containing several thousands of classes
>> using advanced template features, I guess I will have to find another
>> solution.
>
> I've uses gccxml for this purpose in VisualWorks. I reified the gccxml
> output as ST objects, and then used them to generate the DLLCC methods. I
> subsequently abandoned that and switched to clang, because I was already
> using llvm and was interested in using llvm to jit FFI stubs that did the
> mediation. Described on my blog starting here:
>
>  http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/antony/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Generating_cross-platform_high_performance_native_code_in_VisualWorks.&entry=3372121629
>
> and a comment about gccxml here:
>
>  http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/antony/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Seaweed:_whats_wrong_with_GCCXML&entry=3372431209
>
> Anyway, if you have a generic and ongoing requirement, I would recommend
> clang, with the caveat that I'm not sure of the current state of it's
> advanced C++ template handling. Failing that, you may have success with
> gccxml.
>

Yeah, LLVM/Clang could be cool alternative.
Btw,  reading your blog, you seem expressing same ideas as me - use
JIT to produce native code for primitives directly from language. Then
thinking a little farther - once you can implement all primitives in
new style, you then don't need a conventional VM anymore. Wellcome to
Moebius project :) http://code.google.com/p/moebius-st/


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Igor Stasenko AKA sig.