Re: XS Modules - why and when? (XS References)

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

Bod, surprisingly I don't seem to have a list of references on this topic yet. This looks like a good place to start:

• Getting Started with XS by David Farrell (article on perl.com)
• XS-Tutorial by David Farrell (cpan)

See also:

• XS (Perl) (wikipedia)
• perlxs (perldoc)

Other cool references welcome.

[LanX]

Great, the WP article is already detailing 5 common reasons: (emphasis added)

> It may be desirable for a Perl program to invoke a C subroutine in order to handle very CPU or memory intensive tasks , to interface with hardware or low-level system facilities , or to make use of existing C subroutine libraries.

[Bod]

surprisingly I don't seem to have a list of references on this topic yet

Sorry to add to your workload!