John Meacham writes:
I am not a fan of having to stow errno for every ffi call..
As was pointed out to me last time this came up, you don't have to stow it for every FFI call, only on a context switch. Adding one word to a TSO is also very cheap. The total cost is almost certainly unmeasurable. Cheers, Simon
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:50:00AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
John Meacham writes:
I am not a fan of having to stow errno for every ffi call.. As was pointed out to me last time this came up, you don't have to stow it for every FFI call, only on a context switch.
Adding one word to a TSO is also very cheap. The total cost is almost certainly unmeasurable.
okay. I am convinced. :) John -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Meacham - California Institute of Technology, Alum. - john@foo.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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