[m-rev.] for review: fix mantis bug #559, step 2

[Zoltan Somogyi]

2022-05-07 11:00 GMT+10:00 "Julien Fischer" <jfischer at opturion.com>:
> Results attached.  Baseline is commit 2cb46b2, while modified is commit
> b96a90f. (I meant to benchmark both asm_fast.gc and hlc.gc at -O2 and
> -O5, but didn't realise I had set things up incorrectly until this
> morning; let me know if you you want to run the other combinations).

Thanks for that. I think these four results are sufficient to show that the
new approach is not significantly slower, and since it can handle much
larger disjunctions, it should definitely be preferred. I will therefore
switch  to this approach for conjunctions. I think I will hold off on
doing the same for if-then-else chains, due to lack of need, until
someone has a real need to compile a monster if-then-else chain.

Zoltan.