Label as Values in D ?
Patric Dexheimer via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 5 06:58:27 PDT 2017
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 13:16:43 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> Patric Dexheimer wrote:
>
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html
>>
>> Is possible to use Label as Values in D?
>> Or there is a way to do dynamic goto statements?
>>
>> Ps: This is out of curiosity / performance reasons. I know the
>> potential of bad design / ugly code ;)
>
> as we have nested functions, you can just initialize a table
> with function pointers, and use it instead of computed goto.
> this is way more powerful trick, as you can actually use any
> selector you want, in any way you want, and still have the
> speed of computed goto (most of the time).
That´s nice, I take a look with compiler explorer and it indeed
create a jump instead of a call. Not sure if fast as goto, w´ll
have to benchmark it :)
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