Re: Skill-C interface

You could use the Integrators Toolkit (ITK-DB). This allows you to write
standalone applications which access the database from C, and there is some
(limited) support for invoking SKILL from this.

However, I suspect this is not what you want. You can't (for example) link in
some C code with DFII and call that from SKILL (we don't support that, for
a variety of reasons - one being that it is rarely necessary). What you can do
however is to write your computationally intensive tasks in a separate program,
which you can then invoke using the ipc function calls (e.g. ipcBeginProcess),
and then communicate to that external program either synchronously or
asynchronously. This can be quite an effective means of doing things outside.

What sort of intensive operations are you talking about? SKILL can be pretty
quick provided that you do things correctly (it's byte-code compiled,
and runs on a virtual machine).

Regards,

Andrew.


On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:20:13 -0700, sampath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Hi,
>is there anyway that i can mix skill and c code,
>I am looking for a way to do some runtime intensive operations in c and 
>get the data into a skill code?
>can somebody tell a solution?
>sampath

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