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The Functionality section in the erl_nif docs mention 3 different strategies for long running NIFs: Yielding NIFs, Threaded NIFs and Dirt...
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This post documents how I built a cross-platform Elixir NIF in C to get on-demand up-to-date disk-usage stats without relying on os_mon a...
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Preface ~ NIFs are rough as heck to debug properly.
So you’ve created a NIF with a decent amount of complexity and have resorted to using...
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Exray is a library which leverages Unifex and Bundlex to create NIFs for Raylib’s various modules. Currently, it’s in a functional enough...
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Hey everyone! In this blog post I showcase some of the metaprogramming features that make Zig a great language to write NIFs with. Specif...
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I’m currently in the very early stages of implementing futlixir, a bridge that enables Elixir to call out to Futhark programs. It works b...
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I have a crazy question - does anyone think it would be possible to put the bun JS runtime (written in Zig) in a NIF via Zigler.
If that...
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What’s the difference between NIFs and Jinterface?
From what I can tell, NIFs are for implementing a function natively, with C or, Rust ...
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I wrote a simple C++ NIF that gets the unix time. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it was great to see all of the pieces fit together pr...
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Jsonrs is a JSON library like Jason or Poison, but it’s faster and uses much less memory. This is thanks to the core of it being a Rust N...
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This post documents how I built a cross-platform Elixir NIF in C to get on-demand up-to-date disk-usage stats without relying on os_mon a...
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The Functionality section in the erl_nif docs mention 3 different strategies for long running NIFs: Yielding NIFs, Threaded NIFs and Dirt...
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Exray is a library which leverages Unifex and Bundlex to create NIFs for Raylib’s various modules. Currently, it’s in a functional enough...
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I’m currently in the very early stages of implementing futlixir, a bridge that enables Elixir to call out to Futhark programs. It works b...
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Preface ~ NIFs are rough as heck to debug properly.
So you’ve created a NIF with a decent amount of complexity and have resorted to using...
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Hey everyone! In this blog post I showcase some of the metaprogramming features that make Zig a great language to write NIFs with. Specif...
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I have a library which is written in C++, and I wrote a NIF “bridge” for it.
When I bench marked the library in C++, it had ~400-600 ips...
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This is a basic demonstration of how to write an ICMP (‘ping’) server using a NIF in about 100 lines of elixir and 100 lines of Zig.
Thi...
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I have a crazy question - does anyone think it would be possible to put the bun JS runtime (written in Zig) in a NIF via Zigler.
If that...
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Jsonrs is a JSON library like Jason or Poison, but it’s faster and uses much less memory. This is thanks to the core of it being a Rust N...
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Hello everyone,
I would like to integrate some c++ code to Elixir. The library is https://github.com/online-go/score-estimator.
This is...
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I have a NIF where profiling indicates some functions are hovering around the 1ms region so I intend to make them dirty. Should I ju...
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I tried to fetch a small library which has a NIF module that calls a C code, but seems it cannot be fetched, so I’m getting: ...
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Hello
I started new project.
It uses cuBLAS to calculate matrix products.
It uses NIFs.
I want to apply it to Deep Learning.
https:/...
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This is a port of the zxcvbn library, originally by Dropbox.
Unlike another similar package which was done in pure Elixir, this one is u...
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My elixir project indirectly uses crc which has NIFs. They won’t compile. It look like the linked does not see the libraries.
rtp_to_hls...
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Please tell me.
I want to run Nifs on Windows10.
When compiling with the MiGW version of GCC, I got the following error:
What should I...
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I am excited to announce ALEx, the (A)rcade (L)earning (E)nvironment for Eli(x)ir.
The ALE is a framewor...
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I am working on integrating a C++ api with Elixir, by using NIFs. Now whenever I load the NIF, I want to initialize some variables/data w...
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What’s the difference between NIFs and Jinterface?
From what I can tell, NIFs are for implementing a function natively, with C or, Rust ...
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I wrote a simple C++ NIF that gets the unix time. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it was great to see all of the pieces fit together pr...
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