Standard way to supply hints to branches
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Tue Aug 27 21:21:24 UTC 2024
On 8/26/2024 10:39 PM, Manu wrote:
> Your suggestions could appear in almost every single at-least-warm function, and
> it's not clear how they marry with eachother. We discussed 2 principle cases;
> likely early return because of short-path or cached value, and unlikely early
> return due to argument validation failure. Plenty of functions contain both
> cases, and plenty of functions contain numerous such items.
> Try and imagine how your suggestion scales when there are 4-5 conditions that
> need to be tested on function entry, and they don't all receive the same hint. I
> value readable and maintainable code...
For reference, a real world example of your code?
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