Exposure of "direct" arrays

I brought up a similar question last fall.
You might want to take a look at this thread:
http://www.b9.com/pipermail/uffi-users/2002-October/000219.html


>>>>> "rif" == rif  <rif-DPNOqEs/[email protected]> writes:

    rif> Under CMUCL, there is functionality to make an array accessed by a C
    rif> program and CL have the "same data" by getting the address of the
    rif> array from CMUCL.  This is obviously risky (the manual suggests you
    rif> should turn off garbage collection when you do this to avoid your
    rif> thing getting moved out from udner you, for instance), but I'm finding
    rif> that at this point, a substantialy fraction of my total runtime (maybe
    rif> 20%) is spend basically copying my data between my CMUCL array and the
    rif> foreign array which is passed to C.  So is this functionality exposed
    rif> at all in UFFI, or do I have to switch to using CMUCL's FFI directly
    rif> in order to get at it?