[[!toc ]] Q&A: live Duration: 29:48 [[!inline pages="internal(2021/inline-alternate)" raw="yes"]] If you have questions and the speaker has not indicated public contact information on this page, please feel free to e-mail us at and we'll forward your question to the speaker. # Talk [[!template id="vid" vidid="mainVideo" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-bindat--turbo-bindat--stefan-monnier--main.webm" poster="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-bindat--turbo-bindat--stefan-monnier--main.png" captions="""""" size="36.6M" duration="29:48" other_resources="""[Download --compressed56.webm (28.8MB)](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-bindat--turbo-bindat--stefan-monnier--compressed56.webm) [Download --main.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-bindat--turbo-bindat--stefan-monnier--main.vtt) [Download --main--chapters.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-bindat--turbo-bindat--stefan-monnier--main--chapters.vtt) [View on Toobnix](https://toobnix.org/w/qQeuipEkbSJgZbDm6xRg9q) """]] [[!template id="chapters" vidid="mainVideo" data=""" 00:01 Introduction 02:06 What is BinDat? 05:27 Conversion to lexical scoping 08:30 The BinDat specification 15:35 New design 17:47 Documentation 19:30 Advantages 21:51 New features 23:08 Examples 27:56 Conclusion 28:28 Negatives """]] # Q&A [[!template id="vid" vidid="qanda" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-bindat--turbo-bindat--stefan-monnier--answers.webm" poster="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-bindat--turbo-bindat--stefan-monnier--answers.png" size="89.8M" duration="47:23" other_resources=""""""]] [[!template id="chapters" vidid="qanda" data=""" 00:00 bindat seems very similar to GNU Poke. 00:55 Is your dog's name something Lisp or PL related? 01:15 Is it merged into mainline Emacs, a patch, an external library? 01:35 Are there benchmarks of this vs. the older bindat? 02:13 Do you know of any CL or Scheme libs similar to bindat.el? 02:55 You are a hero of kittens everywhere. Do you have any feline pets as well? 03:47 (Q&A logistics) 05:35 I hope cl-loop is more efficient than intermediate lists... 06:16 BBB chat: Curious: how is GNU Poke more flexible? 07:55 How Stefan got involved with bindat 08:33 BBB chat: What hobbies/interests do you have besides Emacs (and PL)? 09:42 BBB chat: Thoughts on making Emacsconf better? 11:40 BBB chat: Poke's from-scratch DSL vs. building on an existing language 14:10 Winnie the dog interjects. 15:15 BBB chat: Favorite talks so far? 19:00 BBB chat: What kind of dog is Winnie? 20:05 BBB chat: More control over types coming into Elisp? 24:15 Andrea Corallo joins discussion about types and performance. 38:19 BBB chat: Do you plan to add bit-level support? 41:15 Is there an automated way to convert bindat C type specs to Lisp specs? 43:00 BBB chat: That's a classic hard problem that essentially requires a C compiler. 43:51 BBB chat: And there's a problem of object size being arch dependent. 44:54 BBB chat: Parsing a generic .h file is way more difficult. 46:05 BBB chat: Automatic translation is more for automatically writing C bindings. 46:50 Thanks """]] # Description