What other languages use the same data model as Python?

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid.invalid
Thu May 5 10:30:08 EDT 2011


On 2011-05-05, Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> harrismh777 wrote:
>> 'C'  is still the best high-level language on that processor.
>
> Some would argue that C is actually better than assembler these
> days, because modern architectures are so freaking complicated
> that it takes a computer to figure out the best instruction
> sequence. :-(

Been there, done that.

Many years ago, it took me more than a week (and required the help of
an ARM instruction set guru) to come up with an assembly language IP
checksum routine for the ARM that out-performed the somewhat naive
NetBSD "C" version.  When we switched to the FreeBSD stack (and a
newer compiler) a few years later, my assembly code got tossed out
because was no longer any faster than the C version.

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