Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: the C switch Message-ID: <8874@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 2-Mar-85 22:11:38 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.8874 Posted: Sat Mar 2 22:11:38 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 07:09:49 EST References: <800006@acf4.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 6 > Do any C compilers perform switch optimization? I.e. tradeoff cascaded if > for table lookup. All the C compilers I am familiar with have about three different ways of generating code for a switch statement, in an attempt to optimize the size of the code vs. its speed.