Re: Inline performance

[goran kirra net]

Paulo,

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 02:00:58PM -0200, Paulo Schreiner wrote:
> Hi, I notices that Inline::C has been used to create the bindings,
> instead of plain-old XS. Could someone tell what was the reason to that?

Ease of development.

> And aren't there performance problems with this approach?

No, since Inline::C is a wrapper for XS and we
have done a lot of hackery to make an installed
Gtk2 module behave just like a XS one.

We use Inline::C for development but not in the
installed runtime.

> PS: I haven't actually used it, i'm just wondering if using XS wouldn't
> be the more "correct" approach, so this is not a complaint or something
> based on exeperience.

This is perl, there is no correct way in perl,
there are just *many* ways to do it. :-)

/göran