[fpc-devel] Case code pattern

[Marco Borsari]

Il 13/08/2018 16:29, J. Gareth Moreton ha scritto:
> I haven't explored it too deeply myself, but from what I understand, a
> jump table is only generated if there are a large number of branches
> (over 50).  If it's just a handful of branches, it simply subtracts
> values from the input corresponding to the differences between the case
> labels, and jumping to the next subtraction if there's a mismatch, or to
> the else block if it goes negative.  I'm not sure what it does for
> strings though.
>
> Gareth aka. Kit

I see, I suspected the existence of a threshold value.
I am not interested in strings,
thank you, Marco