Mike Meyer wrote: > If you wire everything down, you can always hand-code assembler that > will be faster than HLL code
but that doesn't mean that your hand-coded assembler will always be faster than an HLL implementation that addresses the same problem: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2005-November/004519.html "Pure Python division is 16x slower than GMP but can actually be faster in some instances; for example, dividing a 2,000,000 digit number by an 800,000 digit number" </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
