Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Tuukka Toivonen wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
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>>Actually I'm surprised if an optimizing C compiler can't do it
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> Just checked: gcc-2.95.4 can do it automatically, without even any
> optimization. So use large switch...case without fear, C compiler can
> optimize it into a single table lookup and a jump.

Good. That's also what I thought. I don't think a switch/case has much 
CPU hit. Unless you have a good way to reduce the (growing) number of 
possible messages.