>Note that most A/V libraries out there make >extensive use of inline assembly, how would that fit in with "The Plan 9 >way"?
it depends whether it's actually sensible, since the inline assembly often does little enough. in this case, assuming it makes sense, you'd just write it up in .s and call it. if the overhead of a function call is too much, there wasn't much point in doing the low-level fiddling in the first place. that's roughly the approach.
