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Subject: Re: Why idempotent?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 19:36:59 02/14/00

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On February 14, 2000 at 22:36:25, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On February 14, 2000 at 21:49:15, Sanjiv Karnataki wrote:
>[snip]
>>I use VC++ 6.0 for my amateur program. would this technique help or is VC++
>>smart enough to make it a waste of time ?
>
>You will probably get about 2-3% faster.  For small programs less (sometimes not
>even noticeable).  For big programs up to 5%.

I should add that you will want to make your headers idempotent anyway.  It's
just good programming practice.




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