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Re:I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case by throwawaysleep on Monday August 08, 2022 @07:43AM (#32384374)
Did you stick to it? I admittedly would have conceded I was wrong in that situation.
Re:I 10x'd a TI-84 emulator's speed by replacing a switch-case by dehrmann on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:14PM (#32387409)
I did! The compiler team agreed that it was broken and gave me a flag to disable jump tables. Surprisingly, that didn't cause any noticeable performance regressions.