In <[email protected]>, on 04/24/2012
at 03:33 PM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> said:
>It finds that GOTO is most often used when the programmer is
>attempting to write more efficient code yet tends to have exactly
>the opposite effect.
Attempts at micro-optimization often have the opposite effect to that
which is intended. I'd be interested in a study of efficiency issues
when GOTO is used only to implement control structures not natively
available.
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