Which one is faster ?

[MisterX]

like everything, it's at runtime you see the effects...
but if not solicited a lot, it's makes for a lot of 
clear branching. 

Surely different languages implement each differently
and decompiling would be the best way to know what is
best...

But in RunRev, the benchmarking is the only way to know...
Without too much digging in macsbug ;)

Whatever happened to YACC for HyperTalk?

cheers
Xav 
http://monsieurx.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Mark Wieder
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 18:58
> To: 'How to use Revolution'
> Subject: Re: Which one is faster ?
> 
> MisterX-
> 
> Wednesday, May 18, 2005, 9:27:22 AM, you wrote:
> 
> M> switch  -- note the lack of parameter, now the case 
> handles if cases!
> M>   case a=b
> M>   break
> M> end switch
> 
> Switch without a parameter !!??!! I reworked my benchmark 
> test to try this and found that this effectively slows the 
> switch statement down to the speed of the nested ifs (i.e., 
> 20-35% slower), meaning that the pcode is mapped to the same 
> thing, where every test must be taken in turn. Interesting 
> technique, though.
> 
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
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