Custom calling conventions

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

There are cases where i don't need type checking per Variant. In case
of dynamic function calls, the parameters would be passed to a
template, which would generate a TypeInfo of a function, with those
parameter types and will compare with TypeInfo of the underlying
function, effectively making only one type check per function call.
Variant is tightly coupled with type storage and checking.
I need a bare typeless storage for this and a separate type management
mechanism. Without a calling convention it will look very ugly.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 2/21/12 5:19 AM, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
>>
>> This is just what I needed. I need to create a new calling convention
>> to implement dynamic data typing without resorting to incredibly slow
>> and cumbersome Variant.
>
>
> If Variant is incredibly slow, that's a bug. It's a tagged union so for many
> types it's simply the data and one extra word.
>
> Andrei
>
>



-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.