Case vs If Else If: Which is more efficient? [duplicate]

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It seems that the compiler is better in optimizing a switch-statement than an if-statement.

The compiler doesn’t know if the order of evaluating the if-statements is important to you, and can’t perform any optimizations there. You could be calling methods in the if-statements, influencing variables. With the switch-statement it knows that all clauses can be evaluated at the same time and can put them in whatever order is most efficient.

Here’s a small comparison:
http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/SpeedTestIfElseSwitch.aspx

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