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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:22:51 +0000
From: Vincent Hanquez <tab@snarc.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [libvirt] Supporting hypervisor specific APIs
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" <libvir-list@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 08:57:36AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Why?
>
> We can provide a generic QMP dispatch interface that high level  
> languages can use.  Then they can do fancy dispatch, treat QErrors as  
> exceptions, etc.

Because more than likely it will be more efforts than doing the same work in
the native language, forcing certains designs [1] up to high-level-language
developers throats, and possibly less stability (segfault, memory corruption,
memory leak, ..) specially in development phase.

[1] lack of separation between IO and pure functions, file descriptor versus
stream, C memory functions instead of GC based, and probably lots of other
things easily accessible from high level language.

-- 
Vincent