Don Wrote: > bearophile wrote: > > Je'rome M. Berger: > > > >> I have almost never used inline assembler even in languages that support > >> it. Of course, this is only a sub-point of your point 6: using inline > >> assembly in a language as slow as Python would be completely pointless.< > > > > For scientific computing this is better than D inline asm: > > http://www.corepy.org/ > > Based on a quick look at the website, that looks _extremely_ unlikely to > be true.
This seems like an extravagant claim: "CorePy. . . regularly outperforms compiled languages for common computational tasks (as hand-coded assembly often does)." They are talking about interpreted assembly code, correct?
