Re: abstract unified interface

David Abrahams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.langbinding
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Wallin <[email protected]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> Daniel Wallin <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>>>>>With compile time generated converters that are
>>>>>language dependent these kind of things are more convenient.
>>>>>
>>>>>This would maybe include things like transforming:
>>>>>
>>>>>  f(T*) [ adopt(_1) ]
>>>>>
>>>>>to
>>>>>
>>>>>  f(adopted_pointer<T>)
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know.. 
>>>>
>>>>Really?  I wouldn't have thought so.  I'd just build an AST of the
>>>>policies on the registration side and walk it with a visitor inside
>>>>the language-specific component.  Am I missing something?
>>>
>>>I don't know. You would visit the policies at init time and setup some
>>>function pointers or whatever to do the actual policy calls at runtime?
>> Something like that.
>> 
>>>Can you elaborate?
>> It would be up to each language backend how it wants to translate
>> policies into something it can interpret.
>
> Yeah it's kind of nice, but I'm concerned about the amount of additional
> virtual calls we'd end up with. I can't tell if this matters that much,
> but at least I think it should be considered.

Done ;-)

Seriously, remember that your interpreter's overhead swamps small C++
function calls.  We can afford to take quite a few liberties.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com



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