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Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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On Feb 8, 2:43=A0am, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
> On 2/8/11 9:04 AM, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
> >> void foo(int countdown)
> >> {
> >> =A0 =A0while (--countdown) {
> >> =A0 =A0 =A0fputc('.', stdout);
> >> =A0 =A0}
> >> =A0 =A0fputc('\n', stdout);
> >> }
>
> > That's what I meant by "variants of premature optimization".
>
> See why Ada cannot be efficient? =A0;-)

But to say that the given C example is efficient is analogous to
saying that a function {or constant} "pi" returning the byte '3' is
efficient because it takes less space and time* to use.

I would, however, be extremely suspicious programs using such an
'optimized' approach.

* Because, in general, a single integer operation is faster than the
corresponding floating-point operation.