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Tom Lord <lord@xxxxxxx> writes: > Between character issues, string and string index issues, > no-reasonable-way-to-support-writable-shared-strings/vectors, and so > on -- it seems clear to me that a portable FFI is never going to be > able to compete with a native FFI for some tasks. But I think it is a reasonable goal to have it that the portable FFI is a "common subset" of all the native FFIs. Perhaps ultimately unachievable, but wouldn't it be nice? Even if all the big interesting uses still get into the non-portable bits, portability is vastly improved by a common framework and large amounts of overlap. Thomas