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earenndil
on May 27, 2018
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Comparing the C FFI overhead in various programmin...
Ahhh oops you're right. Point still stands, though -- I wonder why those languages should have different results?
masklinn
on May 27, 2018
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They're both GC'd languages so the FFI may have some additional work/bookkeeping to do around the native calls, which C or Rust does not.
dom96
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OP poses a good question and I don't think it's a simple case of GC vs. no GC. In Nim's case it might have something to do with not using the C int types (PR already open to fix this:
https://github.com/dyu/ffi-overhead/pull/6
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