Re: how to add assembler?

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp@ludusdesign.com>]

Ingo Ruhnke wrote:

> > anyway so if you want, say, a good, fast blitter, then ASM is the
> > way to go. (Please, no "just use ggi" comments from the peanut
> > gallery.)
> 
> A fast blitter *can* be one reason for assembler, but why use it, when
> we have Hermes (http://hermes.terminal.at/), which will do the job for
> us?  Or using SDL or ClanLib? It all depends on what you try to do,
> but for most cases it is good to assume, that assembly is the wrong
> way.

And for using MMX/SSE/3Dnow! and friends, there is libmmx (I think)
which has macros for those functions that make sense in C.

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Pierre Phaneuf
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