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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

god forbid anyone do multiple non-nested if blocks one after another in the same function as the function does multiple different things or (horror of horrors) put an if-else inside a loop

also unless your compiler is completely and utterly brain dead (as is the case with Python, Java, C#, and most other languages that ~~only pretend to be compiled~~ compile to bytecode) a switch and a series of elif statements will compile to the exact same sequence of machine instructions. you can check on godbolt.org if you don't believe me.

modern compilers are insanely smart. as an example, this loop counts the number of 1's in the binary representation of a number:

    while (n)
    {
        n = n &amp; (n - 1);    // clear the least significant bit set
        count++;
    }

LLVM will recognize that this is what you are trying to do and emit a single POPCNT instruction on x86, eliminating the loop entirely.

also how would you even use if statements for arithmetic at all? you aren't thinking of that one joke isEven() function, are you?