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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] switch labels in sub-blocks
From: ilya79@actcom.net.il (Ilya Sher)

Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
> Ilya Sher wrote:
> 
>> It looks like using "goto" to me. Messy.
>> That's probably the reason it is not allowed.
>>
>> Or maybe other people like myself failed to
>> understand how it is really useful. Real example
>> from you would help here.
> 
> 
> it's a valid performance trick in C
Thanks for the info.
> 
> http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/d/Duffsdevice.html
> 
I still fail to understand how that is useful.
Please, explain me. _Real_ example is welcome.

The example there just puts into *to one item
referenced by *from with offset count.
(Correct me if I'm wrong)

Assuming *to will be replaced with *to++
it will be plain memcpy() without any "interesting"
functionality.
(Again, correct me if I'm wrong)
> 
>