writing XS in plain C
writing XS in plain C
By bulk 88 from NY.pm
Date: Monday, 20 June 2016 17:30
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Advanced
Language: English
Tags: c internals xs
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Even if you learned C in a classroom at some point, Perl's "XS" API for writing perl subs in something purported to be C but is really a cat on a tablet with caps lock on. In this talk I will show how difficult it is to write subs in plain C. This talk will make XS seem like a cakewalk.
Attended by: Todd Rinaldo (toddr), Dave Rolsky (autarch), Lee Johnson, David H. Adler (dha), James E Keenan (kid51), Turd Furgison (fartfart), gary, Ross Steiner (rdsteiner), Thomas Glase, Matthew Horsfall (alh), Deven Corzine (deven), Will Braswell (Will the Chill), atoomic, Gonzalo Diethelm (gonzo), Chip Salzenberg (Chip), Julian Brown, Thomas McKernan, Rolf Langsdorf (LanX), Daniel LeWarne (Possum),