Re: IF or SWITCH
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Thu, 06 Apr 2006 06:45:54 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: IF or SWITCH | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.general |
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On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:29, Joe Wollard wrote:
> The main perk to using switch over if
> statements is speed (Google can back this up). The reason it's faster is
> because it's simpler by design and is able to jump directly to the case that
> evaluates to true, whereas an if statement needs to evaluate every if/elseif
> condition until it finds one that evalutates to true.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say WRONG!
Run yourself a benchmark.
Cheers,
Rob.
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