On 01/05/2018 09:44, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
[]> But I would remind you of the possibly apocryphal tale of a yound Gary
> Kildall, faced with a huge wad of assembler code  as an intern, who took
> the decision to rewrite it in FORTRAN. It ran faster...

My experience, and what also applies to the Raspberry Pi, is that
optimisation of the algorithm is the most efficient way of speeding up
software, before any consideration of assembler or C or whatever.  But
choosing a language specifically oriented to the problem in question may
be the most efficient use of a programmer's time.

Special cases excepted, of course!

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Cheers,
David
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