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    Possible duplicate of Is micro-optimisation important when coding? Commented May 4, 2018 at 6:11
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    C++ doesn't have labelled breaks, therefore the canonical and accepted practice is to emulate them via goto, despite its bad reputation. Don't fear names - fear concepts. Commented May 4, 2018 at 6:24
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    @Akiva: so did you actually measure the performance difference? And just because you have heard "goto" is an acceptable way of breaking out of a nested loop does not imply the alternative of introducing a function with a clear and concise name would not be more readable. Commented May 4, 2018 at 6:29
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    @Akiva: benchmarking this is pretty simple, you don't need special tools or skills: set up a small program which calls this function with some test data in a loop several times (maybe several million times), and measure the running time with a stopwatch. Do the same with the cleaned-up code. I bet the difference will be negligible (of course, don't forget to use compiler optimizations). Commented May 4, 2018 at 6:41
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    Why are you reinventing the wheel? Commented May 4, 2018 at 17:30