Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 09:52:14 11/19/02
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On November 19, 2002 at 04:41:59, Gunnar Andersson wrote: >On November 18, 2002 at 20:09:27, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>Indirect call costs *at least* the same as conditional branch, sometimes much >>more. > >I've discovered that arrays of function pointers can outperform switch >statements, at least with GCC and many cases. To me the generated assembly code >for the switch statement contains a jump table anyway, and there's some extra >assembly code essentially performing range checking. > >/ Gunnar Why not get rid of both those evil things?
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