Re: Havoc's note about using GClosures

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org> writes:

> I think Havoc had a good point when he mentioned that since the straight C
> callbacks are the more used code paths, and GClosures have a notable
> overhead over simple C callbacks, maybe the implementation of interfaces
> that support both C callbacks and closures should be changed to use the
> former for the actual callback.
> I.e. all the current implementations use GClosures internally, and the C
> version simply calls the _closure version with a CClosure created on the
> fly. A much better approach would be to have internal, auxillary C
> callbacks that call GClosures.

Hi,

after playing around with this, I realized that the overhead is not as big
as it looks like.

I'll post some profiling data soon.

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