Author: Jesper Antonsson
Date: 14:24:00 09/02/02
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On September 02, 2002 at 13:09:17, Robert Hyatt wrote: >The question becomes how large can the jump table be? The answer is, it can >be as large as you are willing to bear. It costs memory. In the "old days" >the table had to be pretty small, but today, you could easily have values >like 0, 100000 if you wanted to optimize for speed rather than for memory. Well, nowadays, you also have to consider branch prediction and instruction cache issues. I wouldn't be sure that a big jump table would be as efficient if you just have a few interesting values, if I hadn't tested it.
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