From: Michael & Amy Hartsough <Hartsough@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: 'others' - inefficient esp. DEC Ada? [1/1]
Date: 1997/10/12
Date: 1997-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: 344168c5.21239761@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net
Tom Moran wrote:
> It certainly would be nice if each compiler came with a crib sheet
> showing what it does especially well or poorly, instead of each
> programmer having to discover for himself (usually painfully).
Yes, one Ada compiler I've used generated 30-40 instructions at
the beginning of every case statement (my guess was this was to
create a "jump table"). So we examined all case statements in the
program and converted those with only two or three selectors to
if statements.
Michael
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1997-10-12 0:00 'others' - inefficient esp. DEC Ada? [1/1] Rob Kirkbride
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-12 0:00 ` Michael & Amy Hartsough [this message]
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
1997-10-14 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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