Re: transpiling to low level C

On 12/23/2024 1:43 AM, David Brown wrote:
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On 23/12/2024 03:41, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
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The comments I made here, in two responses to postings of yours,
were not statements of opinion but statements of fact.

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They are opinions _about facts_, or if you prefer, opinion
about truth value of some statements.

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You can program in C without the "normal" conditional statements or
expressions.  You can make an array of two (or more) function
pointers and select between them using your controlling expression,
and that should be sufficient for conditionals.  (There may be other
methods too.)
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So as far as I can see, Tim gave statements of fact, not opinion.

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Jumping back in:
That one can do this seems obvious enough;
Downside, as I see it, is that there is no current or likely
processor hardware where this is likely to be performance
competitive with the more traditional if-goto mechanism [...]