From: forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@...>
Date: 2007-07-29T13:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance diffrence between ifs and case

On 11:41 Sun 29 Jul     , Phlip wrote:
> forgottenwizard wrote:
> 
> >Is there any idea on which way the aforementioned systems will evolve,
> >or is that kind of a toss-up.
> 
> There's at least one attempt out there to write a compiler for Ruby. That 
> requires a re-write, and while of course its goal is more performance, the 
> exact resulting mix will indeed be a toss-up.
> 
> >What I'm doing right now, it doesn't make much of a diff either way, so
> >I'll use case sinces its less typing...
> 
> So ... 'case' is more "DRY"?
> 
It seems to me, that since I can't tell a real diffrence (I'll look into
the benchmarking bits later), I might as well use what seems the easiest
to expand as things go along.

Less to type in

case i
	when arg,a
	...
	when arb,b
...

instead of
if i="arg" or i="a"

:)