Re: [Sbcl-devel] alien functions in Lisp (ie, callbacks)

[Raffael C. <raf...@ma...>]

On Oct 7, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Thomas F. Burdick wrote:


> Alien-callable functions won't get you very far with Cocoa programming
> -- they're necessary but insufficient -- but they're all you need for
> Carbon.

I suspected as much.

>   Eddy Westbrook and I are plodding along on integrating
> Objective-C with CLOS.  We're hoping to be able to get an SBCL.app
> soon, but what soon means depends on the intersection of our
> respective spare time.

I may be lazy and wait for this. ;^)

>
>> Coming from the other direction, I have considered the possibility of
>> building a standard Objective-C Cocoa application for the GUI layer,
>> which would launch sbcl as a child process.
> For the moment, this is probably a more practical solution.  Well,
> that or using Carbon.  For the IPC, I'd use sockets, but if you want
> to use shared memory, you can use mmap via sb-posix.  Hmm, it looks
> like the sb-posix:map-anon flag still isn't defined: just FYI, its
> value should be #x1000 on Darwin :-)

Which, if either, would make for better performance?

regards,

Ralph

Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
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