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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] FFI - Foreign Function Interface
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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Hi Marco,


Some API and naming issues may be changed, e.g. FFI::array_type() was renam=
ed to FFI::arrayType().

Changing FFI into ForeignFunctionInterface looks, like an overhead. People =
who don't know what FFI is, don't need it.


I surprised, there are no any problem reports...

It seems, like few people on @internals tried it.


Thanks. Dmitry.




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From: Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2018 7:26:57 PM
To: Dmitry Stogov
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] FFI - Foreign Function Interface

Looks very interesting, especially for simplifying the landscape of extensi=
ons.

Still, the amount of abbreviations and naming issues is quite huge: needs a=
 lot of care on that end, IMO. Even just the name of the type (`FFI`) can s=
imply be expanded to `ForeignFunctionInterface`.

Just my 2 cents.

Marco Pivetta

http://twitter.com/Ocramius

http://ocramius.github.com/


On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:54 PM Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com<mailto:dmitry=
@zend.com>> wrote:
Hi Internals,


I would like to start discussion of FFI RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/ffi


This extension allows calling C function and accessing C data structures in=
 pure PHP.

In conjunction with preloading it gives a  possibility to write PHP extensi=
on in PHP itself.

The extension was tested on attempt to build TensorFlow PHP binding.


Thanks. Dmitry.

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