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From: Michael & Amy Hartsough <Hartsough@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: 'others' - inefficient esp. DEC Ada? [1/1]
Date: 1997/10/12
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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