From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-04T13:13:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FFI 0.2.0

Saji N. Hameed wrote:
> * Wayne Meissner <wmeissner@gmail.com> [2008-12-03 10:09:03 +0900]:
> 
>> Greetings Rubyists.
>>
>> The JRuby team is proud to announce the release of 0.2.0 of FFI for
>> Ruby.  This release is compatible with the FFI implementation released
>> in JRuby 1.1.6
> 
>  Just started learning about Ruby/DL - what are the most significant
> advantages of FFI over Ruby/DL ?

* FFI works on JRuby and Rubinius as well as MRI and 1.9
* The API is nicer (imho)

Wayne may have some other points...maybe it's faster?

- Charlie