On the subject of switches on strings, I tested how mcs and the Mono runtime performed. Specifically, I tested the code that mcs produces for switches on strings versus nested if-statements for a three-way decision. The if-statement version was substantally faster (about 3-5 times, as I recall). The difference was due to how mcs handles switch statements. Using a different C# compiler, there was no difference between if-statements and switch under the Mono runtime.
On Thursday 07 October 2004 6:21 pm, Jonathan Gilbert wrote: > 'switch' performs about the same with strings as it does with ints. How > does it do this? It has to do with the fact that every separate object on > the system has an object ID, which can be treated as an 'int'. This alone > isn't enough, but coupled with the string intern pool, it is possible to > come up with a "definitive" object ID that represents a given string. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
