[Haskell-cafe] Injecting Haskell into C

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Roman,

Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 2:04:38 PM, you wrote:

> As I understand, there are two ways to do that. Either Haskell code is
> called from C, or C code is called for Haskell. So my questions are:
> 1. Are they both possible?

yes. "foreign export" exports Haskell functions to C world, foreign
import does opposite

> 2. If yes, which is better performance-wise? (C function is
>    performance-critical). If generated function is called many times,
>    how big an overhead is going to be?

foreign import *unsafe*

-fvia-C together with -O2 may improve speed of C function calls



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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com