http://blog.somecreativity.com/2008/04/24/switch-vs-if-else-if/ Weblog of Siddharth Uppal Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:36:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://blog.somecreativity.com/2008/04/24/switch-vs-if-else-if/#comment-4663 Switch is just If-Else-If « Some Creativity Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:13:42 +0000 http://siddhu.wordpress.com/?p=476#comment-4663 [...] Nope. If the range of the values specified in the case clauses is large, creating a table as explained previously, will cause wastage of memory. So a function like the following won’t be utilizing the IL “switch” statement and will be treated like a sequence of “if-then-else” statements. However, for efficiency, the order of comparisons might be different from the order in which “case” clauses were specified in your code (more info). [...] [...] Nope. If the range of the values specified in the case clauses is large, creating a table as explained previously, will cause wastage of memory. So a function like the following won’t be utilizing the IL “switch” statement and will be treated like a sequence of “if-then-else” statements. However, for efficiency, the order of comparisons might be different from the order in which “case” clauses were specified in your code (more info). [...]

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