In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/19/2005
at 08:21 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>How do other readers feel about:
>SIZE EQU 2 * SIZE of an array entry
> ...
> MH Rx,=Y(SIZE)
>versus:
> AR Rx,Rx * Multiply by SIEZ of an array entry
>... for performance, readability, and maintainability? (The typo is
>deliberate.)
They are equally readable. They are equally maintainable if and only
if the size cannot change. It's not good enough that you didn't expect
it to change. So, except for rare exceptions I'd go with the multiply,
even though it is slower.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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