purepd WAS: Re: [PD] comport and bascom avr / ascii2any

[Martin Peach]

Thomas Grill wrote:

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> Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
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>> On Nov 21, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Thomas Grill wrote:
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>>>> Assembly is even faster than C, so why aren't people writing 
>>>> objects  in   assembly?
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>>> They are.
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>> Are there any externals written entirely in assembly?  I am sure 
>> there  are some written in C with some assembly, but that's like 
>> using Pd with  some C objects ;).
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> Oh yes indeed, we should really stop that....


...and of course for ultimate performance a lot of the externals could 
be built using ICs and transistors ;) It seems like the original 
inspiration for max and pd must have come from those digital logic 
trainer boards with lots of boxes and banana plugs.

Martin