13CONTROL STRUCTURES AND PROGRAMMATIC DECISIONS
Control structures are the bread and butter of high-level language (HLL) programming. The ability to make decisions based on the evaluation of stated conditions is fundamental to practically every kind of automation that computers provide. The translation of HLL control structures into machine code has, perhaps, the largest impact on program performance and size. As you’ll see in this chapter, knowing which control structures to use in a given situation is the key to writing great code. In particular, this chapter describes the machine implementation of control structures related to decision making ...
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