Which one is better when performance is taken into consideration an if else if or switch case
Duplicate: Is there any significant difference between using if/else and switch-case in C#?
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Which one is better when performance is taken into consideration an if else if or switch case
Duplicate: Is there any significant difference between using if/else and switch-case in C#?
For both readability and sense use a switch statement instead of loads of IF statements.
The switch statement is slightly faster though:
http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/SpeedTestIfElseSwitch.aspx (first hit on Google)
The compiler can optimise the switch statement so use that if you have more than, I would say, 3 or 4 different cases