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Re: Re: [pygame] Python and Speed
René Dudfield <renesd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Greg Ewing
> <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > René Dudfield wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 2. - asm optimizations. There seems to be
> > >
> > > almost no asm optimizations in CPython.
> > >
> >
> > That's a deliberate policy. One of the goals of CPython
> > is to be very portable and written in a very straightforward
> > way. Including special pieces of asm for particular
> > architectures isn't usually considered worth the
> > maintenance effort required.
> >
>
> Other, more portable, software has proved this to be somewhat wrong I
> think.
I think this is the wrong forum to be having this discussion :)
Richard