Re: Loop Optimizations and Gotos

hrubin@stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) wrote:
[snip]
>How can one avoid many unnecessary steps when there are numerous
>logical exits from a block? One case of this is entrance to a
>state machine;
[snip]


See the paper, "How (Not) to Code a Finite State Machine,"
Douglas W. Jones, _SIGPLAN Notices_, vol. 23, no. 8, August
1988, for another alternative to implementing FSMs that you
may not have thought about that avoids the problems you
mention.


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