Re: LuaJIT FFI vs Lua binding vs Lua interface
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- Subject: Re: LuaJIT FFI vs Lua binding vs Lua interface
- From: Thomas Fletcher <thomas@...>
- Date: 2012年6月25日 07:50:13 -0400
> From: James McKaskill <james@foobar.co.nz>
>
>>On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>It also occurred to me that while there are probably many parts of FFI
>>which could be made more portable, there are some important operations
>>which are simply impossible to do portably at runtime in standard C.
>
>The unportable bits are:
[ List of unportable bits snipped ]
Not to hijack this thread, but since James is discussing some of the
internals I thought it might be interesting to understand why he didn't
re-use the work from a project like libffi?
Was it purely to be LuaJIT compatible or were there other factors?
Thanks,
Thomas ... purely interested, not advocating one approach or another.