[Mono-devel-list] plans for a native AES wrapper.

[Zoltan Varga]

                                             Hi,

  Internal calls are only a bit faster than p/invoke. The difference
only becomes
greater when complex types are passed to native code like arrays/structures in
which case the runtime will have marshall them. You are of course free to 
add new internal calls to your app which embeds the runtime. 

                             Zoltan

> I think I may have misread the part of the wiki that talks about
> embedding mono (http://mono-project.com/Embedding_Mono):
> 
> "The Mono runtime provides two mechanisms to expose C code to the CIL
> universe: internal calls and native C code. Internal calls are
> tightly integrated with the runtime, and have the least overhead, as
> they use the same data types that the runtime uses.
> The other option is to use the Platform Invoke (P/Invoke) to call C
> code from the CIL universe, using the standard P/Invoke mechanisms."
> 
> Does that text actually list *three* options, not two? It also seems
> to suggest that internal calls are faster than *something*.  I had
> previously thought that it was comparing native calls to p/invoke.
> Was I wrong?
> 
> We've written both a p/invoke and an internal call Rijndael wrapper.
> There is a negligible performance difference between the two. We may
> still ship the internal call implementation for reasons unrelated to
> performance; it reduces our library dependencies and makes it harder
> to do something malicious via library substitution.
> 
>      -Allan
> 
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