Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: goto's ??? | Date | Fri, 28 May 1999 00:51:20 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> said:
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> It's faster when the code goes straight without jumps. Errors do not > happen often, so the first is better. The compiler doesn't know which > branch is used more, but we know it, so we must suggest the compiler where > to put jumps.
And it is also gentler on the kind human reader, who doesn't want to look at the error code all the time ;-) -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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