writing XS in plain C

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NY.pm

Thursday, 25 August 2016 12:10

30 minutes

Advanced

English 

Even if you learned C in a classroom at some point, Perl's "XS" API for writing perl subs in something purported to be C but is really a cat on a tablet with caps lock on. In this talk I will show how difficult it is to write subs in plain C. This talk will make XS seem like a cakewalk. 

c internals xs