writing python extensions in assembly

[Diez B. Roggisch]

inhahe schrieb:
> I like to learn what I need, but I have done assembly before, I wrote a 
> terminal program in assembly for example, with ansi and avatar support.  I'm 
> just not fluent in much other than the language itself, per se.
> 
> Perhaps C would be as fast as my asm would, but C would not allow me to use 
> SIMD, which seems like it would improve my speed a lot, I think my goals are 
> pretty much what SIMD was made for.


That is not true. I've used the altivec-extensions myself on OSX and 
inside C.

Besides, the parts of your program that are really *worth* optimizing 
are astonishly few. Don't bother using assembler until you need to.

Diez