Re: Fwd: Re: Depending on C99 (Re: GtkBindingSignal changes)

[Mike Emmel <mike emmel gmail com>]

On 1/5/06, Tim Janik <timj imendio com> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Mike Emmel wrote:
>
> > On 1/5/06, Tim Janik <timj imendio com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, ANDREW PAPROCKI, BLOOMBERG/ 731 LEXIN wrote:
> >>
> >>> I disagree with this completely. We compile all of our code on Solaris/AIX with
> >>> SunPRO cc & IBM xlc without c99 extensions enabled for our own reasons.
> >>
> >> please tell us what kind of reasons those are. considering and re-evaluating them
> >> is exactly what this thread is for ;)
> >>
> >
> > Well if issues like this are going to come up I did some investigation
> > on using libffi for signal dispatch and my conclusion was it would be
> > significantly faster then the current dispatch system.
> > Just food for thought.
>
> it wouldn't, i evaluated it for emission when i wrote the
> marshaller generation code for GSignal.
>
Really ?
Can you explain a bit more.
I saw that it could reduce dispatch cost by about 50% at least since your
looking up the function and directly pushing the args.


> > Mike
>
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> ciaoTJ
>