Update FFI to be more portable and direct. #25
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Description of the change
This updates the timing FFI to not bind to
hrtime
directly, which is an odd API in general, instead taking the closure directly and returning the expected nanoseconds.My primary motivation for doing this is that the existing framework does not work well with
purescript-backend-optimizer
, which aggressively eliminates unused code. The current pattern after inlining results in an unused call tof
, which means nothing ever gets executed. By using an opaque FFI call, the demand on the closure is kept, and everything works as expected. Normally I wouldn't suggest doing this arbitrarily for this tool, but I think this is a better binding anyway, and is likely easier for other backends to implement since it doesn't rely on the specifics of a Node API.Checklist: