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SHOW HN: Experimental GCC/GAS inline assembly bridge for Python

A new Python package called sfpy-asm version 0.1.1 provides an experimental bridge for using GCC and GAS inline assembly directly within Python code, allowing low-level assembly operations to be integrated into Python scripts.

Background

- **sfpy-asm** is an experimental Python package that acts as a bridge between Python and low-level assembly code compiled with GCC/GAS (the GNU Compiler Collection / GNU Assembler). - It lets developers write inline assembly inside Python programs, similar to how GCC supports inline assembly in C/C++ — useful for performance-critical sections, direct hardware access, or learning how CPUs execute instructions. - The project targets Python users who need to squeeze out maximum performance or work with hardware at the bare-metal level, where Python's usual abstractions get in the way. - This is highly experimental and not intended for production use; it's more a proof-of-concept for what's possible when bridging Python to assembly.

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