[Box Backup-dev] [PATCH] Win32 merge [05] bbackupd

[Nick Knight]

Fair point - my background is DSP's!

-----Original Message-----
From: boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk
[mailto:boxbackup-dev-admin at fluffy.co.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Wilson
Sent: 09 August 2006 10:37
To: boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Subject: RE: [Box Backup-dev] [PATCH] Win32 merge [05] bbackupd

Hi Nick,

> For compilers switches are more efficient, if's and elsifs if it is
the=20
> last match then it runs them all, typically a lot of compilers compile

> switch statements into jump tables (AFAIK).

Premature optimisation is the root of all evil :-) I'd favour
readability=20
over efficiency until we have a measurable efficiency problem (not just
a=20
few machine cycles of comparing ints).

Cheers, Chris.
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