Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:36:30 +0100 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? -> goto example |
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Alexander Kellett wrote: [...] > As much as I absolutely love the utility of this > piece of code you really do have to admit that it > _is_ rather difficult to understand :) > It is hard for everybody - until we get used to it. Then it is just another normal thing. :-)
> Is it so flawed of me to expect that some day this > code could be rewritten in an extremely clean > fashion and compilers made to do the work that > was put in to make this fast?
This is not flawed - but we actually need that compiler to exist, and become _common_ before replacing hand-optimizations with clean code. Feel free to join the gcc team and make the world better...
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