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From: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Performance vs. Structure
Message-ID: <81@tessera.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 89 14:13:42 GMT
Reply-To: jtc@tessera.UUCP (J.T. Conklin)
Organization: Tesseract Communications, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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I've been amused as various people have "Structured" the _doprnt
code by eliminating gotos.  I don't get it.  Is it really worth
increasing the formatted i/o bottleneck by eliminating gotos from
a library routine that may not be changed in years?

I don't advocate gratuitious use of gotos, but I find them perfectly
acceptable in low-level library routines and small state machines.

    --jtc

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J.T. Conklin
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