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Re: Hardware Support for Numeric Algorithms

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From: Herman Rubin
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 15:07
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In article <GLEW.92Nov4072629@pdx007.intel.com> glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:


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>Emphasize. As usual, Knuth is an arbiter of good taste in programming
>style. For example, his example of programming state machines with gotos
>is cleaner than the usual case state/variable structure.  His suggestion of 
>never allowing fallthrough into a label often clarifies code.

This may or may not be the case.  Natural fallthroughs occur frequently.
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