On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 21:18:25 UTC, IntegratedDimensions
wrote:
What is the best optimizations that a compiler does to switches
in general and in the D compilers?
The best possible depends a lot on the specific case at hand.
Best possible is to fully elide the switch, which does happen.
On Friday, 1 June 2018 at 21:18:25 UTC, IntegratedDimensions
wrote:
If one has a switch of N case then the last cost surely does
not cost N times the cost of the first, approximately?
It depends on the compiler and optimization level. In general, no
optimization or just a handful of cases mean
