At one stage if statements become confusing with increase in level of ladder if conditions. Complexity of if.else.if statement increases with increase in conditions. Complexityĭepending on situation if.else.if as well as switch.case can be simple or complex. Whereas switch.case is worthy to use for more number of fixed choices. So, I can conclude that if.else.if statements generate better performance with fewer conditions. I guarantee for this case you will select first approach. Create an index page, search the name in index page, if name exists in index page then go to that particular page.Searching directly in each page of directory one after another.What is more efficient way to search name in the directory? Let me explain this with an example - Let us suppose a telephone directory with 5 names printed on 5 separate pages. This is because, checking fewer conditions is worthy than querying a separate lookup table. if.else.if statement with 1-5 conditions will generate a better performance, than switch.case with 1-5 cases.
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Compared to switch, if.else.if statement generate a better performance and code readability with fewer conditions. Which slightly degrades the performance of if statements compared to switch. Whereas, if statement checks all condition sequentially. Hence, condition checking overhead during switch.case execution is relaxed. Using lookup table, it directly transfers program control to the matching case or default case. During the compilation process, switch.case generate a lookup table. Talking about the performance, switch.case wins the race. If the case exists in lookup table, then it transfers control to the matching case otherwise to default case (if mentioned). On execution, instead of matching switch(expression) for each case, it query the lookup table generated during compilation. During the compilation process, C compiler generate a lookup table based on the case values. On the other hand, working mechanism of switch.case is completely different. It skips all subsequent condition check once condition got matched. If.else.if checks all conditions sequentially until condition matched. In this post, I will compare both on various grounds. However, there is always a debate among beginners which to use and when to use what? Hence, we are getting 5 as an output.Īlso check this example to make a simple calculator in R using switch() function.If.else.if and switch.case both programming constructs has ability to take decision based on conditions. Similarly, "length" expression matches with the last item of the list. Hence, we are getting “red” as an output. Here, "color" is a string which matches with the first item of the list. In this case, the matching named item’s value is returned. The expression used in the switch () function can be a string as well. > x xĮxample: switch() Function with as String Expression If the numeric value is out of range (greater than the number of items in the list or smaller than 1), then, NULL is returned. The switch() function returns the corresponding item to the numeric value evaluated. In the above example, "red","green","blue" form a three item list. If the value evaluated is a number, that item of the list is returned. If the value evaluated from the expression matches with more than one item of the list, switch() function returns the first matched item. Here, the expression is evaluated and based on this value, the corresponding item in the list is returned. Syntax of switch() function switch (expression, list) If the value evaluated from the expression matches item from the list, the corresponding value is returned. The switch() function in R tests an expression against elements of a list.