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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

Post your Best, your worst, and your most interesting. But please - no programming questions . This forum is purely for amusement and discussions on code snippets. All actual programming questions will be removed.

 
GeneralRe: The Illusion of a Choice Pin
Andrew Rissing5-Apr-10 9:24
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riced7-Apr-10 4:54
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supercat99-Apr-10 7:56
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dojohansen wrote:
And I thought the compiler optimization would have caught that one


I have no idea what the instruction timings would be like on mega-pipelined processors, but certainly on older machines one could test whether a value was less than zero (i.e. had the high bit set) more quickly than one could test for its being in a particular range. The two-part test could be faster for the case where the value is positive, even if it would be slower for the case where it is negative. If the positive case will occur much more often, eliminating the split test will make the code smaller but could cause it to run more slowly.
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David Skelly7-Apr-10 6:21
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GeneralSubclassing Pin
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