code generation of a switch on an enum

[Andrew Haley]

On 12/09/14 20:57, Vitaly Davidovich wrote:
> Sorry, I think I wasn't clear.  I'm asking why the JIT decided to do a
> decision tree rather than a jump table.  Naively, this example seems like a
> classic jump table approach.  If there's no strong profile indicating that
> a given value is always used and the value range is dense, the jump table
> should be preferred as (a) the JIT already loads the switch table I
> believe, so there's a memory access already and (b) this becomes an
> unconditional jump rather than a mess of branches.

You have to measure it.  A mess of branches can play much better with
branch predictors than an indirect jump.

Andrew.