Making an immutable API from a mutable one generally damages
performance (on von neumann architectures) somewhat, the goal is to
minimize that impact.
Cheers.
~Liam
On 7 July 2010 19:40, Yves Parès
That's indeed an advice I've read [1]. But wouldn't it damage the performances, since code will have to go through an extra layer?
[1] http://blog.ezyang.com/2010/06/principles-of-ffi-api-design
2010/7/7 Chris Eidhof
On 5 jul 2010, at 23:48, Yves Parès wrote:
Hello,
I don't know if some of you are familiar with the SFML library (stands for Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) --> http://sfml-dev.org As SDL, SFML is a 2D graphics library, but conversely to SDL it provides a hardware-accelerated drawing, through OpenGL. Well, I'm currently writing its Haskell binding, and I'm stuck with design issues. What I'm heading to is a full IO binding, and that's what I'd like to avoid.
Have you considered writing a low-level binding and building a high-level library on top of that?
-chris
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