[fpc-pascal] CASE

Paul Davidson pdavidson at coraxnetworks.com
Tue Nov 8 18:07:16 CET 2005


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> Jump by offset label number? I don't understand it.
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Sorry Eduardo, am not knowledgeable of compiler internals.
There is (?) an optimization in FPC that uses a jump table(?) instead 
of scanning each label value of a case statement.  Hoping that this is 
the case, as it seems to be with i386.  This would mean faster 
execution of the case.  Yes?

P Davidson
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