From: Alan E & Carmel J Brain <aebrain@dynamite.com.au>
Subject: Re: Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion
Date: 1997/12/12
Date: 1997-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <34921C4D.4B0D@dynamite.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3490252D.6B550F17@ac3i.dseg.ti.com
John G. Volan wrote:
> There is no need for anything so elaborate. Just derive a holey
> enumeration type from a contiguous enumeration type.
--->8---
> My feeling is that "holey" enumeration types (like other Chapter 13
> features) should really only be used at the "edges" of a program,
--->8---
> Contiguous enumeration
> types should be used internally everywhere else in your program
Concur. Matches my own experience exactly. Although we didn't test to
see what the performance hit would have been if we'd have used the
rep type throughout. Any experimental data on this?
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1997-12-05 0:00 Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion Joe Gwinn
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
[not found] ` <dewar.881478386@merv>
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Jim Gleason
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-11 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-16 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain [this message]
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-12-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-16 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-17 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-16 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` David Marshall
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-10 0:00 ` GNORT information ( Was Re: Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion ) Mark Bennison
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion Larry Kilgallen
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1997-12-09 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-11 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-12-11 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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