Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: the C switch Message-ID: <5160@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 15:33:12 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5160 Posted: Mon Mar 4 15:33:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 15:33:12 EST References: <800006@acf4.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 8 > Do any C compilers perform switch optimization? I.e. tradeoff cascaded if > for table lookup. Clearly this is an optimization since a table would be > very wasteful for [a very sparse switch]. Most if not all C compilers do. It's necessary, really. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry