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[Russel Winder]

Ramit,

On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 16:22 +0000, Prasad, Ramit wrote:
[...]
> C switch is just a different way of doing an if/elif tree, I do not 
> really see any real difference. Although, if there is you can feel free 
> to enlighten me. :)
[...]

'fraid not -- though it depends on which compiler and how many cases.
For 3 or more cases compilers will generate a hardware supported jump
table: a switch statement is a jump table not a cascade of if
statements.

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Russel.
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