I'm writing a little program. Right now most of my code is all inline with the main() function. It pretty much reads from top to bottom without making "citations." The code difficult to follow and looks very amateurish. I could neaten everything up a bit with a more complex program structure. If I do this, will my program still execute with the same fantastic speed?
Yes, adding comments will not decrease the overall efficiency of your program. Same with white space.
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> If I do this, will my program still execute with the same fantastic speed
So long as your functions do a meaningful amount of work, you would hardly notice. The improvements to the code usually outweigh such details.
This would be for example a pretty pointless thing.
Which you might call laterCode:void assign ( int *loc, int val ) { *loc = val; }
assign( &myvar, 0 );
where all you really want is
myvar = 0;
If you dance barefoot on the broken glass of undefined behaviour, you've got to expect the occasional cut.
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Well, the compilers are smart enough nowadays (unless you use a compiler from stone age!). Anyway, write your program in a sensible manner(i mean readable form). The compiler translates your functions into inline main functions where it is necessary. Actually, this is a bit compiler dependent .For exmaple gcc has several optimization options, each produces (most of tht times) a different machine language output.
fnoyan is right. How well do you know your machine? I mean... pipeline sizes, prefetching parameters, cache speed, swap... all these affect program speed. Most half-decent compilers will at least know something about the platform they are written for, and can optimize code for those platforms. Just write straight code, and let the compiler(s) do the speedup for you.
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