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To: Neil Booth who wrote (65068)12/6/2001 8:51:11 PM
From: combjellyRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
"Let the compiler take care of the details; they can do as well as any assembler programmer on routines that consist of more than a dozen lines"

Wrong. A good programmer can always beat a compiler. Whether the difference is significant or not is another question.



To: Neil Booth who wrote (65068)12/6/2001 9:45:28 PM
From: Joe NYCRespond to of 275872
 
Neil,

We are not talking about something abstract, but about the concrete code, C code is generated by this routine:

Message 16739967

On the top of the message, you see the times it takes to execute the generated code. If you look at my post, where I rearange the results a bit, you will see that the execution time is linear with the number of case in the switch statement.

Message 16747529

Joe



To: Neil Booth who wrote (65068)12/7/2001 1:13:49 AM
From: kapkan4uRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
<If execution time is linear in the number of cases, you
need a better compiler. >

Since the switch in question does not have any break statements in it, the linear behavior is correct.

Kap


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