Darren New wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Nothing is faster than C, some wise men said. ;)
> 
> Assembler is.
> 

Back in the days before modern processors I'd say absolutely. But 
nowadays that's debatable. Due to multiple pipelines, the criticality of 
cache hits and advances in compiler design, it's very difficult to beat 
C with assembler.

I'd say a mix of C and inline assembly is probably your fastest 
performance bet. You can leverage the optimizations the compiler will 
perform, and use SIMD instructions in ways the compiler won't find.

-- 
~Mike

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