in reply to Perl Module written in C/asm
Be cognizant of "premature optimization" -- Don't drop to C just because you think you ought to, do it when you have to...
Also check out FFI::Platypus. Graham Ollis has a couple of youtube talks about it online: Foreign Function Interface (FFI): Never Need to Write XS Again and FFI Performance
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