Wrapper round x86 Assembler

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Wed Apr 14 08:36:37 EDT 2004


Fuzzyman wrote:

> In summary - I'm better off learning C and how to write Python
> extensions !!
> It's just a very 'undynamic solution'.
> 
> Ho hum.... I've been trying to avoid delving into the arcane
> makefile/linker/compiler chain mysteries... probably be more useful
> anyway.

That is where Pyrex comes in.  You aren't supposed to have to know
all those gory details then.  Just some of them. :-)

> I'm 'aware' of the concepts of memory allocation, garbage collection
> etc - but I'm sure there's plenty more to learn..........

I doubt you'll need to encounter those if you're just trying to
squeeze performance out of some bit-twiddling code.

-Peter



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