Re: any chance of 2.6.0-test*? -> goto example

Helge Hafting (helgehaf@aitel.hist.no)
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:36:30 +0100


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...

Helge Hafting
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