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QuestionPerformance of Switch case vs dictionary with delegates Pin
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Rob Philpott29-Apr-24 22:45
Rob Philpott29-Apr-24 22:45 
Interesting question, to which I wouldn't like to guess the answer, but here's what I'd consider.

Firstly, what is it that is being switched? If its something primitive like an integer, the switch code would I expect boil down to a collection of CMP and BEQ instructions (compare and branch). These would be stupidly fast, and because they are consecutive in memory are likely to benefit from CPU caching, so in that instance, an awful lot of switch cases could be compared in the time of a dictionary look up.

If you are switching on strings though, things get more complicated. To do the dictionary look up, first the string needs to be hashed to give a bucket index, then an equality check is needed to make sure it matches. The switch statement doesn't need to do the hash, but has multiple equality checks to do, so I suspect the answer here boils down to the ratio of time taken to hash vs. time taken to do an equality check. So then you get into the realms of how similar are the strings? To check for equality, if the first character is different you can just bail out and fail the test quickly, but if its the last you have to go through every character before you can pass or fail the test.

It'd be interesting to profile this, but somehow the idea of creating a switch statement with hundreds/thousands of cases sounds unpleasant, I have no idea whether a compiler would accept it and would be completely impossible to work with.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.

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