On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> > You'd lose some performance, of course, but how much that would affect
> > the overall performance of Exim I would not like to guess.
>
> I don't think so, because it wouldn't differ very much from the way gcc
> handles the switch/case statement. Also it would give the opportunity to
> look at some code again and maybe tweak it a little bit.
Function calls lose performance, but your second point is valid.
> I'm just not a fan of such big functions, because you loose a lot of
> readability (IMHO).
I know that I tend to write big functions instead of breaking them down,
but then my code tends to run fast. I feel there is some connection
between these facts.
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