How does switch compile in Visual C++ and how optimized and fast is it?

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A switch is often compiled to a jump-table (one comparison to find out which code to run), or if that is not possible, the compiler may still reorder the comparisons, so as to perform a binary search among the values (log N comparisons). An if-else chain is a linear search (although, I suppose, if all the relevant values are compile-time integral constants, the compiler could in principle perform similar optimizations).

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