From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,db5c6b2ef47d4b9e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-23 11:33:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: short-circuit control forms Message-ID: <6MM9hWsKXEWw@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <3B30F836.D700DAA3@raytheon.com> <3B312260.728686B5@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0106221258.601d2bce@posting.google.com> <3B33CD82.328E3182@boeing.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 22 Jun 2001 19:38:45 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 993253128 216.44.122.34 (Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:38:48 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 23:38:48 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9061 Date: 2001-06-22T19:38:45-05:00 List-Id: In article <3B33CD82.328E3182@boeing.com>, Jeffrey Carter writes: > It may well be true that short circuiting is necessary to obtain > acceptable run times when implementing a search in a binary tree, but > that seems to have no bearing on the subject under discussion. The post > that I was replying to described coders changing working Ada, which > implies that the software is already fast enough, because they believe > that short circuit forms are universally faster, Presumably this was in preparation for switching to a slower machine :-)