On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Nico Erfurth wrote:
> > are going to optimize it, maybe a binary-chop search on an ordered list
> > would be faster still?
>
> Just a guess, but I don't think it will be much faster, especially
> because the options are of different types, so you need some special
> treatment anyway.
True, but the way you program that is to use the binary chop to
recognize option number N, and then switch on N. But yes, I agree there
may not be much in it.
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