From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-08-02T03:32:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Performance diffrence between ifs and case

On 8/1/07, Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> wrote:

> My point was going to be that the one place optimisation really matters
> is in benchmark code - you only want to measure the effect you're
> looking for - but I managed to shoot myself in the foot and prove
> another point.  Don't assume, measure!  :-)

If that's the case you shouldn't be making a nop() method call.
That's a *huge* part of what you're seeing there.