cond. op. on ='s LHS

[Paul Beusterien]

In article <11073 at pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>  johnm at cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
:In article <4155 at cernvax.cern.ch> burow at cernvax.cern.ch (burkhard burow) writes:
::I'm wondering if anyone has any comments on using:
::       *(a==b?&c:&d) = 1;
::instead of:
::       if (a==b) c=1;
::       else      d=1;
:
:1) Readability, readability, READABILITY!
:
:2) Why?  It's not any faster.

Its probably slower, since it is a lot less likely the compiler
will keep c and d in registers.
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