Hi Igor, at least for me because i didn't have to play with primitives and plugins. Even though i can, because i created a couple of them.
But i really liked that you can easily code everything in smallttalk, using the Alien abstractions, and reify the library and the methods in the image.
Fernando
On Mar 25, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> On 25 March 2010 18:54, Andreas Raab <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> On 3/25/2010 9:48 AM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There's no doubt in my mind. Absolutely nobody is going to spend time
>>>> optimizing their callout interface manually. They use the stuff that's
>>>> there. Go look at AlienOpenGL. Go look at Newspeak. That's your answer
>>>> right
>>>> there. I have still to see a single example of a (non-contrived) usage of
>>>> Alien that's faster than the equivalent (non-contrived) FFI call.
>>>>
>>> Point taken.
>>> Yes, you have to be a lot more clever to optimize such calls for your
>>> use scenarios,
>>> which, as you said, makes writing an application a lot more tedious
>>> process.
>>> But it is the price we pay, when need something to be heavily optimized,
>>> isnt?
>>
>> True, but in that case, why not go straight to a plugin:
>>
>> primitiveGlGetError
>> <export: true>
>> interpreterProxy pop: interpreterProxy methodArgumentCount+1.
>> interpreterProxy pushInteger: self glGetError.
>>
>> That's going to be faster than anything else.
>>
>
> Then i really wonder, why people find an Alien so attractive?
>
>> Cheers,
>> - Andreas
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
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