Re: Re: [pygame] Python and Speed

[Richard Jones <richardjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 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