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Travers Naran wrote:
> On 26/04/2011 9:32 AM, Sanny wrote:
>> I have computed and found "if statments" take 20-50 times longer than
>> basic arithmetic operations. So I wanted to replace if condition by
>> some arithmetics/ Maths.
>
> This is why I think assembly language should be mandatory in schools. :-)

I think assembly level died when hot spot, branch prediction, parallelism
and deep pipelines came in.

I will never forget the day when a compiler BEAT me :-(

   BugBear