From: John Carter <john.carter@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T11:09:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Small Doubt in Ruby

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Michael Morin wrote:

> Rock Roll wrote:
> Assembly and Ruby are kind of an odd couple.  Compared to the cost of Ruby 
> itself, the performance gained by any assembly routine vs. a C routine will 
> probably be quite small.  What is it exactly you want to do?  It just seems 
> so strange to mix Ruby and Assembly code.

Usually inline asm is about doing Rich and Strange things to hardware.

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