From: "Bartosz Dziewoński" <matma.rex@...>
Date: 2012-09-18T02:53:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Inline Assembly / Inline C

2012/9/17 Aleksander Ciesielski <neomex@onet.eu>:
> Wouldn't it improve performance in tasks such as image editions, where you
> have to loop through big amount of data?

Not really. Compilers are smarter than us these days; they can
interchange loops and vectorize the instructions to speed them up (on
platforms which support it). Writing such code by hand would be
painful, platform-dependent and error-prone.


> Or give access to features normally
> impossibile to accomplish in C or Ruby?

Do you have any in mind? Me neither.


-- Matma Rex