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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Calling functions by address
Message-ID: <8153@alice.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 88 20:14:17 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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> From article <679@mssx.UUCP>, by src@mssx.UUCP (Pleschutznig Andreas):
> So we thought of doing that job by declaring the addresses of the emulation 
> routines and jumping to the routines by address like this

> 	(*addressarray[code]);

Before you travel this route, I suggest you measure the relative
time it takes to execute a switch vs. to call a function.
You may find that the switch is faster.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com