30 Jul
2007
30 Jul
'07
8:54 a.m.
On 7/30/07, Roshan d_rosh2001@yahoo.co.in wrote:
If this is part of a bigger program, using boolean variables with while loop, could prove useful.
It is, and the way it has actually been used makes it look even more suspicious:
while(true) { if(condition1) { do_something; break; } if(condition2) { do_something; break; }
do_something;
break; }
Besides being unreadable, does this code have any performance drawbacks as well? My guess is that it would always ruin instruction pipelining since the loop code will be pre-fetched/cached. But that's just a hunch.
I think I'll have to search for my Computer Architecture book now ;)
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Siddhesh Poyarekar
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