On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 16:53 +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote: > isn't it bleeding obvious by now that asm is dumb.
I don't think it is obvious, no. > a function call into something in a *.s file will do. You're not seriously making this statement, are you? > you'll find a few entry points in your fave l.s. > > can i say dumb-asm on this list? > > i saw an attempt of ill-informed cleverness where spl() etc > were picked up by the compiler and inlined. > > i guess he had nothing else to do with his life. > > maybe a 0.02% speedup. Using asm has nothing to do with hand optimzing the inner loops these days. Most use of asm I see happens when C as a language just doesn't have adequate semantics to map into underlying hardware capabilities. Thanks, Roman.
