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Now that you’re a Perl API yellow belt, it’s time to learn to write Perl modules in C. XS is the name for the toolkkit used to create most of the existing C modules on CPAN. It consists of two pieces: the XS language for expressing interfaces and the xsubpp compiler that generates C code from XS.
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Tregar, S. (2002). Writing C Modules with XS. In: Writing Perl Modules for CPAN. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-1152-5_9
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