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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perl XS – passing array to C and getting it back

Posted on December 10, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

perl XS – passing array to C and getting it back

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Camel vs. Gopher [Perl vs Go]

Posted on December 9, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Camel vs. Gopher I’ve been using Perl for several years mostly for small to medium sized programs of sysadmim type (automation, gluing, data transformation, log searching). Recently I started to learn Go. I wanted to write something in both languages and compare. Features a Perl XS solution that demonstrates the use of a hash in […]

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Patching Perl: loading modules that return false

Posted on July 24, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , |

Patching Perl: loading modules that return false If you’ve been programming Perl for a while, you’ve probably run into this exception: Foo.pm did not return a true value. This is a peculiar quirk of the require function: modules must return a true value else Perl interprets it as a failure via r/perl [reddit]

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XS::Tutorial

Posted on January 12, 2018. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

XS::Tutorial A couple of up-to-date tutorials for XS in Perl and C. Also includes a collection of references to other XS material.

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David Mertens – “C::Blocks”

Posted on July 2, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

C::Blocks In the Perl ecosystem, C is a highly respected but second-class language. C::Blocks changes this situation by embedding a C compiler directly into the Perl parser. Blocks of C code are placed directly among lines of Perl. The compiler is Just-In-Time, making your C code just as scriptable as your Perl code. Functions, variables, […]

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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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Exploring Inline::C (Generating primes)

Posted on April 30, 2017. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Exploring Inline::C (Generating primes) I set out to figure out how to use Inline::C today, and thought I’d share the experience from the perspective of someone who was using Inline::C for the first time.

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