You could be right, but here are my reasons. I need to make something that's very CPU-intensive and as fast as possible. The faster, the better, and if it's not fast enough it won't even work.
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, I feel like I can see the best way to do it and I just can't imagine AI would even be smart enough to do it that way... For portability, I'd simply write different asm routines for different systems. How wide a variety of systems I'd support I don't know. As a bare minimum, 32-bit x86, 64-bit x86, and one or more of their available forms of SIMD. "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:04 -0400 > "inhahe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can anyone give me pointers/instructions/a template for writing a Python >> extension in assembly (or better, HLA)? > > I am trying to imagine the requirements document for your project. > > - Must be error prone and hard to debug > - Must take an order of magnitude longer to write > - Must be unportable to other systems > > Really, why don't you write your etension in C? Do you really think > you will improve your code by writing it in assembler? Even embedding > assembler in C code make it unportable and I find it hard to imagine > anything that you want to do in a Python context that can't be done at > least as well in C if not pure Python. > > Just curious is all. > > -- > D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Democracy is three wolves > http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on > +1 416 425 1212 (DoD#0082) (eNTP) | what's for dinner. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
