Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote: > On 12/28/10 9:30 AM, Sean Kelly wrote: > > 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? > > It's generated during runtime and then ran straight.
Yeah, I mulled it over and figured out how this works. For long-running sequences of code I imagine it's quite fast.