Hi, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: [...] >>> * FFI overhaul >>> * Native code generation where possible, else generated C code >> >> For ‘pointer->procedure’, we could use GNU lightning to generate subrs, >> which would save us from the need to go through ‘foreign-call’. > > If someone wants to work on this, I'd be glad, but personally I'm not > interested in integrating GNU lightning. This TODO list item assumed > that we'd first have our own native compiler, even though I forgot to > put "native compiler" on the list. Oh, OK. I was too short-term-minded, I guess. :-) >> This would make things equivalent to hand-written subrs in terms of >> performance. I’m not sure it’s crucial, though. > > A faster FFI would enable us to use it for many more things, including > for frequently-called procedures where performance is crucial (such as > GMP or libunistring) Indeed. Thanks, Ludo’.
