From: phaywood AT aardvark DOT apana DOT org DOT au DOT STOP DOT SPAM (Peter "Shaggy" Haywood)
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Subject: Re: Iteration vs. Recursion...
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Groovy hepcat Dave Dutcher was jivin' on 27 Jul 1999 21:44:32 GMT in
comp.os.msdos.programmer.
Re: Iteration vs. Recursion...'s a cool scene! Dig it!

>But I couldn't help noticing that a lot of people suggested switch
>statements.  I wonder if people suggested a switch statement because the
>orignal poster was looking to increase his speed, or did they suggest it
>because they think switch statements are more readable?  I am wondering
>because, from what I have heard, switch statements are no faster than a
>whole bunch of if statements.

  That's not always true. A switch can be more efficient than a series
of if statements, but that all depends on the compiler.
  But I'd say the suggestion to use switch instead of if was more for
readability than anithing else.
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