Re: Introspection API

[John Ehresman <jpe wingide com>]

Dave Benson wrote:
> a small c program to generate GValue marshallers from the metadata
> seems pretty straightforward.  such marshallers should probably
> be compiled at the same time as the metadata... i think.
Yes, but what's the advantage of using compiled marshallers over using 
libffi?  Are you concerned about portability?  I wonder if mozilla uses 
libffi or if they have their own mechanism for foreign calls.
John