Re: Performance and faster idioms

[Ronald Vogelaar <enter at rovosoft dot com>]

Here is one:

http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/realbasic-nug/1998-01/msg00329.html

Ronald Vogelaar
http://www.rovosoft.com

Massimo Valle wrote:

> on 27-02-2005 19:14, Mars Saxman wrote:
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> > I have heard this "150,000%" number before, and I am extremely skeptical;
> > Select Case and If-Then boil down to almost the same thing internally, and I
> > cannot see anything that would account for such a dramatic performance
> > penalty. The only difference I can think of actually points in Select's
> > favor, since it only has to evaluate the test expression once.
> >
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> I was always convinced that the select-case is faster and I'm pretty sure in
> past someone from RS (don't remember who) suggested me this fact.
> So I just made a very simple test and the if-then seems 3 times faster than
> select case.
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> Massimo Valle
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