On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 02:29, Joe Wollard wrote: > The main perk to using switch over if > statements is speed (Google can back this up). The reason it's faster is > because it's simpler by design and is able to jump directly to the case that > evaluates to true, whereas an if statement needs to evaluate every if/elseif > condition until it finds one that evalutates to true.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say WRONG! Run yourself a benchmark. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
