On 2020-01-28 18:57, Trey Harris wrote:
For doing that sort of thing, learning a little glue C would probably be
very useful (IMO, every systems-oriented programmer is helped immensely
by knowing enough C to be able to munge low-level data structures). This
is a lovely little example of a numeric library using native arithmetic
where most of the work is shunted into C but the interface is native Raku:
https://github.com/p6-pdf/Base64-Native-p6
Trivia:
"Reflection" may be being considered for C++20