Advantage of switch over if-else statement

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Use switch.

In the worst case the compiler will generate the same code as a if-else chain, so you don’t lose anything. If in doubt put the most common cases first into the switch statement.

In the best case the optimizer may find a better way to generate the code. Common things a compiler does is to build a binary decision tree (saves compares and jumps in the average case) or simply build a jump-table (works without compares at all).

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