hey
thanks for all of your responses
al.z
On 25 Jun 2008, at 16:24, Juan Pablo Califano wrote:
I doubt there's a noticeable difference between a switch and a
series of if
/else if statements.
In AS 3.0 bytecode, though, switches and equivalent conditionals
are not
necessarily compiled into the same bytecode. In fact, there's a
lookupswitch
instruction (opcode 0x1b). Of course, any switch can be implemented
as a
series of if / else if statements, but that's up to the compiler.
From my
(limited) experience, the Flash IDE always uses a switch bytecode
whenever
it finds a switch construct in Actionscript code. I don't know how it
affects runtime performance, but my guess is that it doesn't have much
impact. And, thinking about it, maybe that opcode exists because
it's an
optimized way to compile / execute a series of related conditions.
Cheers
Juan Pablo Califano
2008/6/25, eric e. dolecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Switch/case is a bit quicker.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Allandt Bik-Elliott (Receptacle) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi guys
quick question that came up in a conversation I had the other day
- are
switch statements more or less efficient than a series of if...else
statements in either AS2 or AS3?
I'd always thought that the most efficient was the switch
al.z
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