Re: FFI extension

Ah I see, there is no C api for FFI, it is striclty Lua-side thing. My bad :(

W dniu 4 marca 2012 18:27 użytkownik Jason McKesson <[email protected]> napisał:
> On 3/4/2012 3:32 AM, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> what would you say about community driven extension to luabind that
>> would utilize LuaJIT FFI? (http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html)
>>
>> Apparently it is very fast way of C/Lua interop so how can we make our
>> favorite Lua binding library to use it?
>>
>> I would gladly help with developing such extension but not really
>> qualified to manage it as my most advanced hacks are custom policies.
>> And rather simple ones.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Szymon Gatner
>>
> You can't layer Luabind on top of FFI. Luabind does more than FFI does,
> and Luabind requires things (like actually using C++) that FFI does not.
> You can't attach real classes (things that aren't POD in C++03 or
> standard layout in C++11) to FFI. You can't use function overloading.
> Member functions are impossible. I can keep going but my point is clear.
>
> If you want to use FFI, then you use FFI. Luabind solves a related but
> *different* problem.
>
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