[elephant-devel] Pure-Lisp memutil?

[Ian Eslick]

I suspect the original developers found that easier than doing all the
boxing and unboxing conversions for ints, floats, etc by hand.  Wrapping
memcpy in a function means UFFI writes that code for you.  Plus they got
to use sizeof trivially which can change for different machines. 
Finally, they already had a C library compilation happening for BDB.

Ian

Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> I was wondering why was C memutil needed. Couldn't it be possible to use
> memcpy and al. with FFI in CL code?
>
> Curiously,
> Pierre
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