Best Practices in Rev development

Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com
Thu Jun 21 20:52:09 EDT 2007


On 6/22/07, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>
> I read somewhere a long time ago that switch statements run faster than
> if/else.


I was able to track down the thread on this list about this. Unfortunately I
access this List via gMail so I can't provide an easy hyperlink, but for
those who are out to make their code the fastest possible you may wish to
track this down:

Originator: Mark Swindell
Date: 10/22/06
Subject: Switch Case Question

Included some excellent detective work by Dar Scott which explained why
seemingly similar Switch vs If statements would provided different 'winners'
in the speed tests.

HTH



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