<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">This month, Dylan Cali will give a presentation on FFI::Platypus[1], a friendly and fast interface to libffi[2]. With FFI::Platypus, you can use native libraries without having to write bindings in XS or one of the Inline modules, and still achieve excellent performance (almost as fast as XS).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dylan will also show off other performance improvements added to version 1 of ZMQ::FFI[3], an FFI-based wrapper for the zeromq messaging library.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RSVP on the Chicago.PM Meetup page: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/220967211/" class="">http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/220967211/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Office hours are April 9 this month. RSVP on the Meetup: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/221525547/" class="">http://www.meetup.com/ChicagoPM/events/221525547/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[1]: FFI::Platypus: <a href="https://metacpan.org/release/FFI-Platypus" class="">https://metacpan.org/release/FFI-Platypus</a></div><div class="">[2]: libffi: <a href="http://sourceware.org/libffi" class="">http://sourceware.org/libffi</a></div><div class="">[3]: ZMQ::FFI: <a href="https://metacpan.org/pod/ZMQ::FFI" class="">https://metacpan.org/pod/ZMQ::FFI</a></div><div class="">[4]: zeromq: <a href="http://zeromq.org" class="">http://zeromq.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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