Get rid of ugly if statements

Question

I have this ugly code:

if ( v > 10 ) size = 6;
if ( v > 22 ) size = 5;
if ( v > 51 ) size = 4;
if ( v > 68 ) size = 3;
if ( v > 117 ) size = 2         


        

Answer 1

Just for completeness, let me suggest that you could set up an array SIZES with 145 elements so the answer could be returned directly as SIZES[v]. Pardon me for not writing the whole thing out. You would have to make sure v was in range, of course.

The only reason I can think of for doing it that way would be if you were going to create the array once and use it thousands of time in an application that had to be really fast. I mention it as an example of a trade-off between memory and speed (not the problem it once was), and also between setup time and speed.