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Introducing the unrolled-switch anti-pattern

April 3, 2012 Apr 3, 2012 04/3/12
Raymond Chen
Over the years, I've seen a bunch of coding anti-patterns. I figured maybe I'll share a few. Today, I'll introduce what I'm calling the unrolled-switch anti-pattern, also known as "Specialization is always faster, right?" As we all know, special-case code is faster than general-purpose code. Instead of writing slow general-purpose code...