From -7568990711542347594 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,5be30c38f618a07b X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-03 10:35:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Pavel Kuznetsov" Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Why switch w/ only integral types? Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 17:34:09 GMT Organization: Meridian'93 Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ Message-ID: References: <6ee7d287.0203202005.63e0b7b3@posting.google.com> <3CCE6310.672E55DF@webmaster.com> X-Trace: mail2news.demon.co.uk 1020447253 mail2news:29164 mail2news mail2news.demon.co.uk X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Mail2News-Path: news.demon.net!mulga.cs.mu.oz.au X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.227.110.19 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1020428199 14358833 193.227.110.19 (16 [97366]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 FL-Build: Fidolook Express 2001 UIExt. BuildID: 3BC00FAD (7/10/2001 11:17:49). X-Comment-To: David Schwartz Lines: 19 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.std.c++:11012 David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com) wrote: DS> and on many platforms is actually slower than DS> corresponding if/else code at low levels of optimization. At least on one platform code generated from switch/case is a lot faster than that from if/else if. And of course speed is not right factor for choosing between if/else and case. Readability and ease of maintainance is. -- Pavel --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]