Is this make sence? Dynamic assembler for python

Steven D'Aprano steve-REMOVE-THIS at cybersource.com.au
Sun Jun 20 23:28:43 EDT 2010


On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:21:43 -0400, Dave Angel wrote:

> Something's intrinsically wrong with the argument made in this thread
> against generating assembly code.  That's exactly what happens every
> time you write code in C.

I don't know whether C compilers generate assembly mnemonics or direct 
machine code, but the distinction for this argument is irrelevant.

The argument in this thread is that it's not worth the *human coder* 
writing assembly, not that no assembly code is involved in the process 
anywhere.



-- 
Steven



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