Re: [Chicken-users] noobie question about chicken/swig/csi

[minh thu]

2007/4/2, Alex Queiroz <address@hidden>:
> Hallo,
>
> On 4/2/07, Graham Fawcett <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > Neat, huh? There's also the easy-ffi, lazy-ffi, etc. Chicken's really
> > good at this kind of thing, if you're the kind of person who likes
> > having choices.
> >
>
>      I guess there are so many ffi choices because it must be a pain
> to write pure C extensions, judged by what I've seen from chicken's
> output. But I think that's inevitable given how Chicken uses the
> machine stack.

Well, in fact I found very practical to made that sort of stuff.
Write your C code then just a bit of Scheme so that Chicken is aware
of the C code. Compile, that's it.

What's more, given chicken-setup, it's also easy to make your library
available to the community.

Graham, I did the example that way because I like to separate C from Scheme :
- if I want to move more to C side for performance, it will be easier
- I keep in my head the possibility to make the library available as
widely as possible by keeping it in C and making bindings for other
languages.

Cheers,
(And I get caught by April 1 :)
thu