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Java Abstracted Foreign Function Layer
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Why use JNR over JNA #331

Closed walksanatora closed 1 year ago

walksanatora commented 1 year ago

They seem nearly identical

enebo commented 1 year ago

Here is one person's attempt at differentiating not only JNA but also JNI and project Panama. There is also a link to someone's microbenchmarking with recent results to back up the performance difference: https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi/blob/master/docs/ComparisonToSimilarProjects.md. Here is another talk about why JNR: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jvmls2013nutter-2013526.pdf