jump tables and cases

Henry Cejtin henry@sourcelight.com
Mon, 4 Dec 2000 02:16:33 -0600


Didn't  we  decide  to go with binary search for big integer case statements?
The data from the GNU Eiffel paper seemed pretty convincing that it is  often
much getter and basically never much worse.

I was confused initially by this message trying to see what the importance of
IntInf.int switches was (i.e., BIG integers).