[Pdx-pm] Perl and XS
Andrew S. Clapp
clapp at netscum.com
Tue Mar 18 12:51:56 CST 2003
> I've got a topic for conversation for you Perl Wizards
> out there. I'm interested in XS and what it can do for
It will allow you to speed up something that is easily done in C, but
less obviously done in perl. You could say, pass something out to
C for heavy-heavy bit shifting, and get back the result.
> me. Have any of you wrote an XS extention? What was
> the motivation? Why did you choose the C library that
The motivation though, was to pass data back and forth between
apache's C API and perl talking to Oracle. We used SWIG,
www.swig.org, but I believe XS has passed it since then as
far as perl is concerned.
> you did? Say I wanted to make an extention for
> sockets. Where would I start? What documentation
> would I need to program it correctly. Where would I
> get those docs? Is it practical to use? I assume you
> have to build it, is that ever a problem? Any
> information from anyone would be appreciated. Thanks a
> bunch. -Nick
I don't suppose I follow you now. What's wrong with
use Socket;
?
-ASC
Andrew S. Clapp - clapp at netscum dot com
"Yes, I'd like a half order of magnitude and a side of PI, please?"
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