Array comparison in Perl XS

Posted on March 13, 2019. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Array comparison in Perl XS Comparing two 1-dimensional arrays for equality in XS. Also available on github

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Bit Twiddling Hacks

Posted on August 28, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Bit Twiddling Hacks Many public domain algorithms (with C implementations) for low-level messing with bits. Some examples: Compute the minimum or maximum of two integers Determining if an integer is a power of 2 Counting bits set Swapping individual bits Reversing bit sequences Finding integer log base 2 of an integer (aka the position of […]

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Bulk88 – “Writing XS in Plain C”

Posted on June 23, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Writing XS in Plain C 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 […]

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XS Mechanics

Posted on May 4, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

XS Mechanics is an article in five parts about XS. It explains what it is, why it is, how it works, and how to use it. It includes a complete, working example of an XS module, and a stub module that you can use as a starting point for your own code. It is an […]

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Getting started with XS

Posted on May 4, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Part 1: Getting started with XS Part 2: Writing your own XS functions Part 3: XS utility routines that are good to know eXtendable Subroutines (XS) are subroutines written in C that are callable from Perl code. There are two common reasons you’d want to use XS: there is a C library you’d like to […]

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Wrapping a C shared library with Perl and XS

Posted on March 18, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Wrapping a C shared library with Perl and XS This tutorial shows how to wrap a C shared library using XS and Perl (including creating a trivial test shared library). Also posted to PerlMonks where the discussion references InlineX::C2XS.

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Callback Functions Between C and Perl

Posted on February 27, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Callback Functions Between C and Perl Everything you ever want to do with xs is documented somewhere in perlxs, perlguts, perlapi, perlxstypemap, and perlcall. Figuring out where it’s documented, and how it relates to everything else, is the hard part.

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Learn C Programming With 9 Excellent Open Source Books

Posted on February 6, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Learn C Programming With 9 Excellent Open Source Books The C Book C Elements of Style Build Your Own Lisp The GNU C Reference Manual The GNU C Programming Tutorial Essential C Beej’s Guide to C Programming Modern C An Introduction to GCC

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Fast tr/// using FFI::TinyCC, FFI::Platypus and Alien::TinyCC

Posted on May 3, 2016. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Re^2: Remove double bracket and singe quotes

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