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Pretty sure at least 90% of the readers here know that, but still appreciate the convenience of higher-level language constructs. That's why they're called "hig
by notacoward 6y ago
Pretty sure at least 90% of the readers here know that, but still appreciate the convenience of higher-level language constructs. That's why they're called "higher-level" after all.
BTW, it's not entirely correct that it's all if/goto. ARM has conditional execution that doesn't necessarily involve a jump, and there have been other exceptions as well.
- Sharlin 6y agox86 has CMOV, for Conditional MOVe, since the Pentium Pro, and of course there are tricks employed by compilers and low-level programmers to avoid the overhead of branches, like the `a = cond·b + !cond·c` idiom.