Fast switch statement

[John Colvin]

On Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 09:51:15 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 April 2013 at 01:06:45 UTC, Steve Kucera wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using DMD 2.062 on Windows 7 64-bit.
>>
>> I am writing performance critical functions that need switch 
>> statements to use an indirect jump table... current I'm 
>> analysing the assembly dump, and the code is compiled to 
>> nested ifs instead. This happens with switch and final switch. 
>> Is there any way to force the compiler to use a jump table?
>>
>> Steve
>
> Ldc or gdc may be able to do this for you if dmd cannot.
>
> Other than that, the inline asm in dmd is easy enough to use.

Sorry, inline asm in D, not just dmd.