On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:33 -0700, Dave Parker wrote: > > You sound like a commercial. > > Get Flaming Thunder for only $19.95! It slices, it dices! > > > And while programs and libraries written in assembly may be twice as fast > > as programs and libraries written in C, ... > > It's a myth that they're only twice as fast. An experienced assembly > language programmer can usually get out at least a factor of 5 by > using tricks such as cache-coherence, carry flag tricks, stack > manipulations, etc. > > > ... they're real hell to maintain. > > That's also a myth. For example, if C is easy to maintain, why is > Flaming Thunder the only single-asset 8-by-8 shotgun cross compiler in > the world? There should be lots of single-asset 8-by-8 shotgun cross > compilers written in C, if C is easier to maintain.
Not only is it the world's only "single-asset 8-by-8 shotgun cross compiler," but according to google, it's also the world's only "shotgun cross compiler" period. But I guess if you make up your own terminology you're bound to be unique. :) Do you mind if I ask: what exactly is a single-asset 8x8 shotgun cross compiler, and what makes that of any value to me? Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
