writing python extensions in assembly

[inhahe]

"Dan Upton" <upton at virginia.edu> wrote in message 
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> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Mensanator <mensanator at aol.com> wrote:
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>> Why wouldn't the compilers support it? It's part of the x86
>> architexture,
>> isn't it?
>
> Yeah, but I don't know if it uses it by default, and my guess is it
> depends on how the compiler back end goes about optimizing the code
> for whether it will see data access/computation patterns amenable to
> SIMD.

perhaps you explicitly use them with some extended syntax or something?