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General => Ask Reuben => Topic started by: Reuben B. on April 17, 2020, 11:52:30 am


Title: Ask Reuben 6 - Do You Need Your C-Extension?
Post by: Reuben B. on April 17, 2020, 11:52:30 am
Whenever I get a question on C-Extension's I turn the question around and ask "Do you need a C-Extension"?  What I invariably find is that the C-Extension is being used to overcome a short-coming in Informix-4gl, and the C-Extension can be replaced with some pure Genero code that we have introduced to do what Informix-4gl did not do.

These are some of the scenarios I find a C library being used for when a Genero library is now available...
  • Reading/Writing to a File (base.Channel)
  • Interacting with Files/Directories (os.Path)
  • Advanced Mathematics and Random Numbers (util.Math)
  • Security Algorithms (util.security)

Removing the C-Extension and using a Genero code can simplify your build and deployment practices.

Read more at https://4js.com/ask-reuben/ig-6/