conditional operation

Most models contain a few arithmetic operations and at least one conditional operation (if condition is true, then jump).

Therefore, it is most useful for simple yet unpredictable comparison or conditional operations, where it can provide substantial performance gains.

Conditional operations were written as jumps, as follows:

The job control language was the same on terminals or in batch jobs and included conditional operations and macro operations.

Speculative execution often provides modest performance increases by executing portions of code that may not be needed after a conditional operation completes.

These conditional operations are based on the state of specific bits in the (E)FLAGS register.

Similar to the CMOV instruction, FCMOV allows to perform some conditional operations without the usual branching overhead.

The available options for valid formulas depends on the particular spreadsheet implementation but, in general, most arithmetic operations and quite complex nested conditional operations can be performed by most of today's commercial spreadsheets.

In a National Instruments TestStand expression, if condition is true, the first expression is evaluated and becomes the output of the conditional operation; if false, the second expression is evaluated and becomes the result.