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processes are inner loops and need to be as fast as possible. On most
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machines, particularly CPUs with pipelines or instruction prefetch,
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a (subscript-check-less) C table lookup
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is faster than explicit tests
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These processes all use a common table prepared by the routine below.
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For most steps we can mathematically guarantee that the initial value