;Grafman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: Extending Parrot NCI callback functionality Options
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:31 -0700, Grafman wrote:
He lives! Just kidding, I know you'v
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 16:27 -0700, Bob Free wrote:
> Cool - great to hear from you - sorry that it's been a while since I've
> posted an update!
Real life can be so darned intrusive ;-)
> It'd be great to have you participate - you've done quite a lot for POGL.
> Regarding your work/ideas
As far as I understand OpenGL, it's got one current context per
thread, and libGL does all sorts of evil things with threads and
thread-local storage to make it all work transparently. An
object-oriented OpenGL interface seems like the right way to go,
though, for all sorts of other reasons.
Arcad
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 09:31 -0700, Grafman wrote:
He lives! Just kidding, I know you've had actual paid work going
on. :-)
> Hi chromatic - as you know, I took over the Perl OpenGL project over a
> year ago - you had mentioned that I might consider doing a port to
> Parrot; Geoffrey had suggest
> I'm not even sure *that* will work. To invoke a Sub PMC from C, you
> need to pass in an Interp as well as the PMC. Unless you know both
> of those at compile time, I'm not sure how to make the callback
> mechanism work.
>
> ... although I just had an evil idea regarding memcpy and a hash table
