On 2/28/07 7:45 PM, "Shao Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks a mill Hershel
>> Sorry, what do you mean that IF-ELSE-IF is always evaluated? > > If you have a 20 line nested IF-ELSE-IF statement and the one that > matches your current situation is the 20th one, the previous 19 are > evaluated (thankfully Rev uses some short-circuited methods to speed it > up) > > In a SWITCH statement the engine/compiler converts the CASE statements > into a hashed lookup table (think fast) and as such when the SWITCH > statement is evaluated it just quickly looks up the code to run in the > hash table. > > As I mentioned in my first posting, if you're only using the IF-ELSE-IF > statement a few times, you don't have to wait for the SWITCH lookup > table to be hashed (adding overhead the first time a SWITCH statement > is called) > > Also mentioned in my first posting, how much of this applies to > Revolution in general only they know, as Revolution allows you to some > weird things with the SWITCH statements that you couldn't do in other > languages (apparently a lot of languages the result of the SWITCH > statement can only be an integer) > > -Sean > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
