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In article <KANZE.96Mar15151356@gabi.gabi-soft.fr>, kanze@gabi-soft.fr
(J. Kanze) writes:

> At start-up, yes.  If the map is large enough for this to make a
> difference, however, it's likely that the difference between the O(ln n)
> binary search and a O(k) hash table look-up is also significant.

I wasn't thinking of a large table, I was thinking of lots of small ones.

> Given that the enum labels are all in the source code, and programmers
> being on the whole a lazy group of people, the resulting tables are
> typically so small that it really doesn't make a difference, especially
> since anytime that the conversion is necessary, output will follow.

I agree that the performance of the conversion itself is not an issue.
However, startup cost might be if you have lots of these tables in an
application whose execution is normally of very short duration.  Adding 100
milliseconds, say, to an application that only executes for a few hundred
milliseconds anyway is a big penalty.

My point is simply that static initialization is better, I think.

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