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"Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
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"Borgia, William M." <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:52:32 -0400
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> My code looks much clearer if I use expressions like 2**4 instead of 16,
> but
> then there is the question of execution time also. I don't want the
> calculation to take place over and over again, since the function is
> called
> quite often.
>
        [Borgia:]

        You may want to try declaring the 2**4 expression as a constant,
which guarantees a static value at compile time regardless of the
implementation or level of optimization.  I hate code that relies on a
particular optimizer anyway.

        Bill Borgia

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