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it's how the basic linear algebra subprograms are implemented (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Well I be damned. What does the Fortran do ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Its just easy to write super-optimised code snippets in without having to break out into assembly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

What is the reason to avoid assembly? Is it prohibitively difficult?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Not only is it very difficult to write in assembly, the resulting code is not portable. Meaning that if you wrote it on x86 assembly it can't run on ARM chips without emulation and that takes a significant hit on performance defeating the point

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