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Re^3: Rationale for why successive Perl releases are not XS-compatible?

by Anonymous Monk
on Mar 17, 2017 at 17:14 UTC ( [id://1185065]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^2: Rationale for why successive Perl releases are not XS-compatible?
in thread Rationale for why successive Perl releases are not XS-compatible?

The perl api mostly consists of inline macros, for speed. It should be relatively simple to design a semistable binary api: just provide out-of-line-compiled functions for each of the inline macros. There would be a slight speed penalty, which is why nobody has done it.
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