Provide feedback on dynamic FFI

[ofrobots]

@chrisdickinson: In reference to PLAN.md#L29:

Focus on FFI. (Insert so much 👋 handwaving 👋 here)

I am prototyping on a dynamic FFI in V8 (hello world here: link). The idea is to get the JIT compiler to generate fast JS to native bindings; similar in principle to how LuaJIT does it.

I would be interested in your thoughts on expectations/requirements.

[chrisdickinson]

This is really interesting — sorry it's taken me so long to get back to you. I would love to try prototyping this in nojs, if it's helpful! It should be easy to re-point the vendored v8 at a forked repo that exposes a public V8 FFI API, and I'd be interested in looping that through.

[ofrobots]

Absolutely! Things are bit too raw at this point on my end, and I don't have an experimental public API yet (see prototype here). At this point I am trying to figure some example interfaces you would like ffi to support so that I could get those type semantics implemented.

Once a bit more of the type semantics are implemented, I plan to work on an experimental public API, which should make it possible to start playing with ffi here.