On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:40, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > What backends support packed native arrays at this point? And what's > the performance like?
Parrot does have ManagedStruct and UnManagedStruct PMCs for mapping complex C structures. The syntax to define them is a little grotty, but once you've done that, using them is easy--especially with named access. Performance is good. You don't have to cross the C/HLL boundary to work with the memory, as Parrot can do that directly. I don't know if Patrick has using PIR libraries working in Perl 6 yet, but the last time we talked about it, he said it would take just a bit of work. Wrapping well-designed libraries for Parrot's NCI is easy. I can show you the basics in an hour and you'll be well on your way. -- c
