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Postings from June 2002
Last night I wanted to see just how much of the API very vanilla XS code would require. In the limited sampling I did, I found 37 distinct functions and macros. Based on this, I'd say a reasonable guestimate for minimal core functionality is about 50 distinct functions. Best guesses would place reasonably featured XS support at somewhere like a mixture 150-250 function calls and macros, where reasonably featured implies some minimal amount of work to get the wierdest XS modules working. (which would be expected with any serious internals revision). Porting 50 functions doesn't seem that unreasonable to save thousands of hours of work. I'd be willing to take the initial stab at it unless someone else is more motivated. -- David J. Goehrig dave@cthulhu-burger.org All reports, excluding those of historical fact, may be considered speculative. - a faceless Compaq disclaimerThread Next