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16s on Feb 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is Scheme Faster than C?

The use of gotos rather than function calls is interesting... man that's gutsy programming! I'd never thought to do that when considering optimizations.

chalst on Feb 19, 2011 | [–]

If you were to hand transform your high-level code into assembler, you would have little choice.

swaits on Feb 19, 2011 | | [–]

Sadly, the world of academia has scared people into thinking goto is the spawn of Satan. It really does have its place.

zandorg on Feb 19, 2011 | [–]

Goto's make code really hard to decompile.

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