On Monday, 3 September 2012 at 14:04:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
A sufficiently smart compiler (tm) could
optimize this to a efficient string "prefix switch statement"
just as well…
I agree. But then
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartCompiler.
This is exactly my point: My feeling is that the increased
complexity by introducing a second syntax resp. a new special
case (i.e. among) for such a simple operation is only worth it if
it leaves no reason to revert to a hand-written replacement for
performance reason, and I'm not sure if the signature taking
runtime parameters is enough for that (without assuming such a
sufficiently smart compiler).
David
