[Mono-dev] Invoking unmanaged code without marshaling

[Marcelo Zabani]

Please everyone forget everything I was trying to do. I always thought that
even when pinning the array a copy of it was made, but thanks to Dzmitry I
have just learned that this is not the case. This means that the
performance hit I thought existed in fact does not.
Rafael, thanks for the suggestion, this is precisely what I was doing, and
it is how things will remain.


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Rafael Teixeira <monoman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would not go that route. Have you tried to pin the arrays in managed
> code and marshalling just the pointers, using unsafe C# code obviously? It
> would do what you want, avoid copying, but with no need to do hard to
> maintain hacks... ;-)
>
> Have fun,
> Em 02/12/2012 18:12, "Marcelo Zabani" <mzabani at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>> Hi everyone, I've been trying to find a way to invoke unmanaged code
>> without any marshaling, i.e. by making my unmanaged functions receive
>> Mono's objects (or their addresses).
>> I've read the Embedding Mono page (a very good one at that) and found
>> that if I embed Mono in my application, I could call mono_add_internal_call
>> on my unmanaged functions and mark my C# methods with
>> [MethodImplAttribute(MethodImplOptions.InternalCall)]; there is a catch in
>> my case, however.
>> I am not trying to embed Mono in my application, I'm trying to avoid
>> marshaling from my "standard" .NET app to my C API calls since my C
>> functions deal with large byte arrays all the time, and this implies a
>> significant overhead in allocating and copying them. I would much rather
>> try pinning the arrays and accessing the underlying C-like array directly
>> in some cases (is this possible and is this in Mono's public API?). For
>> this reason, I can only run mono_add_internal_call after my managed code
>> has already executed, and apparently because of this I'm getting
>>
>>      Unhandled Exception: System.MissingMethodException: Cannot find the
>> requested method.
>>
>> Is there anyway to achieve what I want?
>> This is my first time with Mono's internals and I'm only beginning with
>> Interop, so please excuse any stupidities I may be doing.
>>
>> --
>> Marcelo Zabani
>>
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