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Juha Nieminen
Paul said:The implementation of the switch case is irrellevant to what I said. The
worst case scenaio would be approx 3x 525.
Obviously a compiler will optimise this , I don't really give a toss how it
does this and I don't give a toss whether you or any other idiot thinks it
will be implemented as a jump table or a binary search becuase you are just
speculating and if you idiots had any clue about this you would have
followed that branch of the thread that was discussing jump tables and
answered the questions there.
It's irrellevant if you or any other idiot can do it in 1 clock cycle. Now
stop trying to twist what I say.
You are just digging a deeper and deeper hole, trying to weasel yourself
out of the pinch.
I know how it is, from personal experience. Been there, done that. Once
you have started to defend your mistake, you simply can't stop anymore.
You have to continue. But it's a vicious circle: The more you try to avoid
admitting the error, the more you prolong the facade, the more it would hurt
to stop and admit your error. So you just can't stop. You try to come up
with some rationalization, some explanation of how you didn't actually make
a mistake, how your behavior and claims were justified. You might even
convince yourself that you didn't make a mistake (even though deep inside
you know you did, you just can't admit it even to yourself, much less to
others).
I know how hard it is to break the vicious cycle, and how hard it is
to avoid doing the same thing again and again in the future. You write
a response too hastily, without thinking, without having the proper
knowledge and experience on the subject, and suddenly you once again find
yourself in the pinch: You made a mistake and now it's very hard to admit
it and move on. You have to start defending yourself once again. Which,
unfortunately, just makes things worse. But you just can't stop. I know
this feeling, and I know how hard it is to overcome.
However, your problem is even worse than just that. Your problem is
aggravated even more by the fact that you resort very easily to insults,
denigrating namecalling and belittling other people, sometimes even without
any kind of provocation. Maybe it's a defense mechanism, a semi-subconscious
attempt to compensate your own insecurities. After all, if everybody else
is an idiot and a moron, you yourself cannot be that bad, can you? This is
a form of psychological projection.
I know this post will not change anything at all, and it will be a
complete waste of time, but maybe, just maybe, if you read it, it might
plant a small seed in you that will perhaps grow in a few years and make
you learn something about how to interact with other people, even when
doing so behind the anonymity of the internet.
I know you are going to dismiss this, but for your own sake, please do
three things:
1) Stop insulting people. Simply don't do it. There's no reason to do it.
2) atop posting hasty replies on subjects you do not have much experience
and knowledge about (especially if that reply is in disagreement with what
somebody else has said).
3) When you make a mistake, don't be afraid to admit it. Just write
something like "ah, you are right, I didn't know that", no matter how
much it might hurt your pride at that moment, and move on. You will be
glad later that you did that instead of engaging in yet another detrimental
and useless flamewar that will only give you a shitty reputation.
You are not going to do this now, but I'm hoping something of this will
make you think in the following years.