Question

I’m making a game that uses nsstream to communicate with a server, and the program responds to the type of command coming for the stream (say the opponent jumps or shoots). If I have say 20 different types of commands, would:
1) 20 if statements (doubtful)
2) a switch
– or
3) an NSDictionary of selectors corresponding to keys of the command types

be the fastest way to respond to the stream data?

for 2) would I say pass in integers as the command type and convert the data into intValue and pass into the switch?

and for 3) would this be any faster than a switch, or would the lookup time and conversion make it not as fast?

Answer 1

I’ve been into gaming stream for quite much time. Among what you have suggested, I believe the

“2) would I say pass in integers as the command type and convert the
data into intValue and pass into the switch”

will be the fastest one to process.