Re: else ladders practice

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

It's funny how nobody seems to care about the speed of compilers
(which can vary by 100:1), but for the generated programs, the 2:1
speedup you might get by optimising it is vital!

I think most people would rather take this path (these times
are actual measured times of a recently written program):

    compile time:       1 second
    program run time:   ~7 hours

than this path (extrapolated using the ratios mentioned above):

    compile time:       0.01 second
    program run time:   ~14 hours