Selectors
This section focuses on selector statements. As there are a variety of different C/C++ statements to enable a program to choose between a set of execution paths, you might wonder what the actual differences between the selector statements are. Certainly almost any selection implementation can be rewritten to use a different statement—replacing a switch with an if..else construction, for instance. However, each statement does have its own specific strengths and weaknesses. When these statement characteristics are understood, it becomes possible to intuitively choose an efficient implementation solution.
This section presents the characteristics of the different selector statements, after which a performance comparison between the different ...
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