writing python extensions in assembly

[James A. Donald]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 11:21:39 -0400, "inhahe" 
<inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
> They say that the C++ optimizer can usually optimize 
> better than a person coding in assembler by hand can, 
> but I just can't believe that, at least for me, 
> because when I code in assembler,

if one hand compiles C++ into assembler, the result will 
doubtless be crap compared to what the compiler will 
generate.  If, however, one expresses one's algorithm in 
assembler, rather than in C++, the result may well be
dramatically more efficient than expressing one's
algorithm in C++ and the compiler translating it into
assembler.  A factor of ten is quite common.

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