6 May
2017
6 May
'17
9:24 p.m.
On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 03:20:53PM +0000, Michael Kj??rling wrote:
I would absolutely not say that doing something like
that is standard
practice in modern programming. Even in microcontrollers, where
program and data memory can be scarce even today, I would argue that
the costs would not outweigh the benefits by a long shot.
It strikes as being similar to Duff's device (1). Which is a niche thing
but I still use that from time to time. Not to save memory, just because
as a C programmer it seems pretty natural to do it.
--lm
(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff's_device