Wrapper round x86 Assembler

[Paddy McCarthy]

michael at foord.net (Fuzzyman) wrote in message news:<8089854e.0404082353.7bf163a2 at posting.google.com>...
> There might be a really good reason why this hasn't been done *or*
> someone might have done it and I just can't find it..... *but*
> 
> what about a wrapper to an assembler (presumably for x86 assembly !)
> !!
> I just wrote some code doing binary operations which would have been
> about a zillion times faster in a few lines of assembly code.
> 
> I also have fond memories of programming in BBC Basic which had an
> inline assembler - so you could wrap your assembly program in Basic.
> It meant some commercial games started with Basic !
> 
> Anyway - it would be easy to reserve some memory with a string like
> object to pass to an 'assembly object' and allow some really nifty
> (and fast) stuff ?? For simple algorithms it would be very neat.
> Avoiding memory overflow etc would be up to the assembly code 'chunk'
> of course.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Fuzzy
> 
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html
I.m sure that what I am about to suggest isn't as high tech as you
were expecting ,
but I thought that Python already has a way of accessing functions in
a Unix
shared library, or Windows DLL.
If you cancompile Python on the platform than you no doubt have an
assembler handy too.
So, you could put your assemble language in a string; write the string
to a file;
assemble the file to create a shered library or DLL, then call the
function from Python!

I don't think I'd do it that way though :-)

Cheers, Pad.